Reading #3

Reading #3

I didn't really understand a whole lot about the point the author was trying to get across in the first reading.  But what I think I managed to get out of it was basically how important libraries are and what the benefits to having libraries are.  For instance instead of buying books to read once or twice in a lifetime, you can rent them for free for as long as you want and as many as you want.  Another perk to libraries is that they are open to the public, it is accessible to anyone that has transportation to get there.

As for the second article, it was stating how the future of libraries everywhere would turn out.  Their prediction was that it would be totally electronic.  In the article it said that so many people that that Google was a threat to libraries because Google is a search engine that the public can use for free, as long as internet is involved.  With Google being free and easily accessible, that means that anyone could look up anything at any place at any time.  This sounds a lot more easier than going all the way to the library to check out a book to read for information, then having to return it.

I agree in the sense that Google has certainly "threatened" libraries with the thought that it would take over.  But I disagree with the fact that libraries will ever stop existing.  Not every book can be published and put online for free.  Unless you pay for the book online, then you must go to a bookstore, or library, to buy it or check it out.  As for the future vision of libraries being upgraded to a more electronic setup, I can certainly see libraries eventually being upgraded to that vision, especially since they are already in the process of being upgraded like that as we speak.