“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of all human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.” Libba Bary, bestselling fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public library essentially “cures” us of our nescience, pessimism, and prejudice. Bray describes books—to which the library card is a passport—as windows into new mindsets, ideas and perspectives; books are described as conduits by which the library broadens
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When I was writing my final grade twelve history essay on King Casimir III the Great (14th century king of Poland who brought Poland into a golden age), I had a terrible time trying to find good resources and information on the internet that were not scans of ancient Polish chronicles… in ancient Polish. I slaved over my computer for a good week before I thought to myself: “I wonder if the library has anything better?” And sure enough, upon entering the Toronto Reference Library I was absolutely overwhelmed with resources pertaining to the less-than-famous king. What I was not able to not find in English I found in French, though this amount of information was very little because of how many English books and encyclopædia I was able to collect and study. I was kicking myself for not trying the library sooner; indeed, I honestly do not know how I would have written my essay had it not been for the library; what I would have done without it. But I am very glad I did go to the library because I scored an a-hundred percent on the essay that was worth 30 percent of my grade, all thanks to the information I found there. I was able to access a massive library filled with thousands of books all for free; I must have taken over twenty books, encyclopædia and textbooks from the shelves of the library. I used the library database to …show more content…
Libraries are important because they provide knowledge, awareness and literacy skills, they house free and vital resources you will not be able to find anywhere else, and they also provide their visitors with a study environment superior to their homes or coffee shops, in that they are nearly as distraction-free as possible. I think that sometimes we take libraries for granted, and that in this day and age of endless technological advances, we begin to replace a library’s role in our lives with Google for information, and with coffee shops as alternative “study” places from our homes. But the fact remains: libraries are irreplaceable in their own right, because, not only do they have alcoves and rooms of computers in which you can access Google, but they have millions of other resources that you will not be able to find anywhere else; because, in the nonstop hustle and bustle of the world today, the library is an exception to this phenomenon, with strict librarians who enforce utter silence in their library (insert smiley face here), and guarantee a peaceful study space. Indeed, entering into a library is almost like entering into another world, a world of peaceful quiet, invaluable knowledge and near-unlimited
When I was writing my final grade twelve history essay on King Casimir III the Great (14th century king of Poland who brought Poland into a golden age), I had a terrible time trying to find good resources and information on the internet that were not scans of ancient Polish chronicles… in ancient Polish. I slaved over my computer for a good week before I thought to myself: “I wonder if the library has anything better?” And sure enough, upon entering the Toronto Reference Library I was absolutely overwhelmed with resources pertaining to the less-than-famous king. What I was not able to not find in English I found in French, though this amount of information was very little because of how many English books and encyclopædia I was able to collect and study. I was kicking myself for not trying the library sooner; indeed, I honestly do not know how I would have written my essay had it not been for the library; what I would have done without it. But I am very glad I did go to the library because I scored an a-hundred percent on the essay that was worth 30 percent of my grade, all thanks to the information I found there. I was able to access a massive library filled with thousands of books all for free; I must have taken over twenty books, encyclopædia and textbooks from the shelves of the library. I used the library database to …show more content…
Libraries are important because they provide knowledge, awareness and literacy skills, they house free and vital resources you will not be able to find anywhere else, and they also provide their visitors with a study environment superior to their homes or coffee shops, in that they are nearly as distraction-free as possible. I think that sometimes we take libraries for granted, and that in this day and age of endless technological advances, we begin to replace a library’s role in our lives with Google for information, and with coffee shops as alternative “study” places from our homes. But the fact remains: libraries are irreplaceable in their own right, because, not only do they have alcoves and rooms of computers in which you can access Google, but they have millions of other resources that you will not be able to find anywhere else; because, in the nonstop hustle and bustle of the world today, the library is an exception to this phenomenon, with strict librarians who enforce utter silence in their library (insert smiley face here), and guarantee a peaceful study space. Indeed, entering into a library is almost like entering into another world, a world of peaceful quiet, invaluable knowledge and near-unlimited