Library

Butler Library, the largest of Columbia University’s libraries, greets its visitors with a centered mural that embodies the importance of the building it resides in. The Butler Library Mural by Eugene Savage is larger than life, both metaphorically and physically. However, it could be easily overlooked as it sits in the shadows, only illuminated by the distant lights. This lack of direct artificial light seems to contribute to the overall aesthetic of the mural. Rather than artificial light, the…

believes that the art shown in museums should be determined by the public. The writer conveys his ideas through analogies, diction, and syntax, also the relativity of his or her concepts will be explored. To begin, the writer uses an analogy about a library to strengthen the argument at stake.[D:…

New York. As a four-year-old donning an atrocious bowl cut, I knew that my heart belonged to the Big Apple. As I visited campus for the first time last summer, I was struck by the beauty and enormity of it all. It was the Butler Library that did it—the Butler Library, with its ornamental chandeliers and floor to ceiling glass windows. The endless bookshelves and lighted desks. One of the twenty-one houses of books at Columbia. Columbia feels like the Renaissance. 32,000 scholars striving to…

so rapidly that at times they can make more familiar components of our lives, such as libraries, seem outdated and antiquated. However it is the pairing of the two, technologies with the library, which have made the pair even more relevant in the evolving information landscapes that we modern humans find ourselves in. This continually changing landscape can be a daunting thought when just starting out in library school, but when I take a step back and think about it, when have humans ever been…

Censorship in Libraries About 1.72 billion people are affected by censorship on any given day. There are many pros and cons to having censorship in libraries, but in my opinion there are more cons than pros. Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc., that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. However, censorship has and will affect today's children and future kids to come. Censorship in libraries affects…

Why are books banned? Why are books banned or challenged? There are many ways a book can be challenged or banned. A book can be banned or challenged by violence or negativity which means that books that include violence are censored. Some books have been deemed for negative or depressing features. As well as being banned by the profanity, racial issues. By examining the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, and reading over the racial issues and the work of violence that is implemented into this book, I…

I can say that I am very enthused and excited for the chance to possibly further my education at this prestigious forum of learning. Obtaining my Masters of Library and Information Science would be a great aide in furthering my career and growing my community in a positive manner. I currently work at an inner city library as a Senior Library Service Assistant. Working at this particular branch and interacting with the children, adolescents, and adults in the community, it has become apparent…

Author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, shared his views on the act of banning books with the following statement: “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight” (“A Quote by Stephen Chbosky”). Challenging books usually comes from trying to protect people, mainly students, from “inappropriate” material found in the book. This can effect teachers by making them lose their flexibility to…

Utopia in Renaissance Utopia, our city has a great and noble vision that is “investing in the human resource”. All the citizens ' problems could be solved by solving his psychological problems, so the city will care for every citizen’s needs and fancy. We are now in the year of 2200, Utopia, with 200 years old, is now a city that exceeds all the kind of imaginations. It is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of Egypt, in the west of the delta. Also the River Nile "Rashid…

claim, the author refers to an incident in Wettuckett, Ohio where an increase in students cutting class and a decrease in students attending college dropped occurred after books such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were introduced into the school library. However, the author failed to cite the source where he pulled this example from. For all we know, he could have made up the story himself. Even if the incidence in Ohio was true, the author makes an ill-logical assumption that the student's…