Eleanor Roosevelt's Speech: What Libraries Mean To The Nation

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Libraries all around the world are closing because of the advancement of technology that exists in our world today. There seems to be less need for libraries because of websites like Google, where you can get results instantly, where in a library it would takes a few minutes, possibly hours to find what you are looking for. Throughout the years, technology has become more advanced and it has introduced a type of book called an e-book, which is a book that can be read on electronic devices such as a kindle, nook, or even your phone. As more books are released online through e-books, less people feel the need to go out to a library or bookstore to obtain a physical copy of a book. This transition from physical copies of books to ebooks is a …show more content…
Libraries are a huge part of education, so if those are gone, the future generation is expected to be less educated or not educated at all. A solution that might make libraries more appealing to people is putting a coffee shop or cafe in each library and to make the environment as comfortable as possible. Americans seem to love coffee more each year with the overwhelming amount of coffee shops that are everywhere, so putting one in a library might increase the amount of visitors they get each day. Making the environment comfortable can be done by adding comfortable furniture and decorations that relaxes people because the more comfortable a person is in a place, the more likely they are to stay. Reading relaxes people, so being in a comfortable environment will help them to become even more relaxed. Doing this will help libraries to attract more readers because of the calming environment that would be made to the library. If a reader enjoys the environment, they are likely to recommend it to their friends, who will then recommend it to their friends, and so on. Although this solution includes a price, it is a price that everyone should be willing to pay in order to preserve the education of future

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