Libraries

         I well remember my first trip to the library. I was then in the third grade when our class teacher led us there.    since that time I became interested in reading and although today I do not often go to the library, I  still think that it is an irreplaceable human invention.

         A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual.

         Libraries inform their users of what materials are available in their collections and how to access that information. Before the computer age, this was accomplished by the card catalog — a cabinet containing many drawers filled with index cards that identified books and other materials. In a large library, the card catalog often filled a large room. The emergence of the Internet, however, has led to the adoption of electronic catalog databases (often referred to as "webcats" or as online public access catalogs, OPACs), which allow users to search the library's holdings from any location with Internet access. This style of catalog maintenance is compatible with new types of libraries, such as digital libraries and distributed libraries, as well as older libraries that have been retrofitted. Electronic catalog databases are criticized by some who believe that the old card catalog system was both easier to navigate and allowed retention of information, by writing directly on the cards, that is lost in the electronic systems. This argument is analogous to the debate over paper books and e-books. While libraries have been accused of precipitously throwing out valuable information in card catalogs, most modern ones have nonetheless made the move to electronic catalog databases. Large libraries may be scattered within multiple buildings across a town, each having multiple floors, with multiple rooms housing the resources across a series of shelves. Once a user has located a resource within the catalog, they must then use navigational guidance to retrieve the resource physically; a process that may be assisted through signage, maps, GPS systems or RFID tagging.

       Libraries are very important for people,   especially for pupils.

       Today it is important for pupils to read because they will need to be able to read in their future. When pupils read it is increasing their vocabulary. Usually school libraries have computers, so they could use the computer for information. School libraries are useful for teachers to store pupils grades, targets and work on the computers. Teachers can make slideshows and games to make lessons more fun and interesting. Teachers can make tests on computers in the library. It gives a good place to go if you want quite, because in the library their wont be as much noise as in the playground. If a pupil wanted to do their homework during there break time then they could go there, where it's nice and quite with no one talking to them. If a pupil doesn't have a computer or printer they could go to the school library. In school libraries they can ask the ladies at the desk questions if they were stuck with a question. It offers a place for out of school clubs for example, homework club. If a pupil don't have that many books at home, they could go to the school library and take a book out. Or maybe they don't have a library near where they live so they can use the school library. Pupils that are about to leave high school can use the computers in the libraries to help them research for jobs. If people looked for everything on the internet then their would be no use of a book, so it's good to have a library because that way people are still looking things up from a book and not a computer. On the internet you can't be to sure if what your reading is true but in a non-fiction book it's more reliable than the internet.