Let’s Go to the Library

For those of us who love to read, who seek information, want a little time to sit reading a newspaper in the quiet, the Public Library system is where you want to go. Multnomah County Library is three blocks from where I live and you will find me there most days.

As a freelance writer, I find the library an invaluable resource center. Everything in the known world lives somewhere in a library. While I comb the pages of an encyclopedia, toddlers begin to arrive for story hour, herded into the Children’s Library by parents who know the value of learning and education.

Children are exposed to their peers, other adults beside parents and their first drills in manners and behavior. I took my children from the age of two-years. They were enthralled with the whole idea of excitement and movement. If your child is not quiet by nature, you might want to check the age limits that story hours accepts.

It is amazing what a library can bring you. Of course, the first is books, millions of books that they trust you to borrow. There is no fee for a library card, either juvenile or adult. You simply fill out a card at the checkout desk and the librarian will be glad to show how the system works. Libraries are very lenient about how many books you can check out at once, but it is always best to ask first. Remember, the books will still be there later, so be a polite library patron and do not take scores of books you may not have time to read. Read the rest of this entry »

The Internet or the Library? – Which Do You Prefer?

Promptness, Reliability, and Efficiency, these are some of the benefits of the modern technology that we may want to experience and imply for our learning today. The modern technology, specifically the internet had already been a big help. The internet is an international web of interconnected networks that lets you connect to information on government, education, and the likes.It has been making studying easier for years. It forged studying effortless. Libraries become empty dark rooms because of the widespread usage of the internet. Does this mean that the internet alone now a days is the only reliable source we can depend on and the library is not? Or do even kids of this generation know the significance of Library? Which is more massive, the Internet or the Library?

The Library is a place of knowledge. It is a room of different sources of knowledge such as reading materials where we could satisfy our cultural, informational, recreational, and educational needs. For some who doesn’t know how to use it, Library is a struggle. People have to search every book cabinet and scan every pages of the book just to find what are you looking for. That is why most of the students today prefer to scrutinize on the internet than to read in the library. Students have this mindset that Library is as boring as everyone could have ever imagine, but they haven’t thought of the significance and the actualization of learning it could share with us. Most of the students agree that it is a place of boredom, that library is more of a sleeping room rather than a learning room. They doesn’t give importance to it, that we can go through a real hands-on learning in the library. We can see and read actual hard copies of books, novels, and even magazines we love in Libraries which we can’t experience on the internet. The Internet on the other hand, is preferred by the mass because it is just a click away from the most bothering question you’ll ever had on your mind. That’s away it is widely used now a days. No more separate books and journals to interpret, nor another device for audio and visual materials to watch or listen. No more walking on the long aisle of book cabinets nor searching on card catalogs. You will be just needing a computer set and an internet connection. Read the rest of this entry »

Libraries: Not Just Full of Books

Most people think of the library as a tomb for books. Compared to the immediate satisfaction of television and the researching capabilities of the Internet, the printed word doesn’t seem to hold much allure anymore. On top of that, most people spend their lives running around, and ‘just don’t have time’ to visit the library. Sadly, they don’t know what they are missing – literally. Libraries in the 21st century have a plethora of tools to help you, and for some, you don’t even have to leave home. For others, you don’t have to bother suffering through an antiquated book.

The fact that I couldn’t always find what I wanted to used to get on my nerves. Sometimes the book I wanted at on the shelves, sometimes it did not. While researching for school projects, I didn’t even know WHAT book I wanted, only that I needed to find the reference materials as quickly as possible. Now, as a mom of three young children, a trip to the library seems like a plan built around self-loathing. Read the rest of this entry »