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With the
proliferation of high-tech media, some people hold that the public libraries would be
rendered obsolete if they do not offer software, videos or DVDs to
their users while other assert it’s only a waste of limited
resources and the libraries should offer books only.
High-tech media
is, in many ways, indeed superior to the books in terms of entertainment,
attraction, and functionality. For instance, videos and DVDs function as a
visual means to assist people to have a first-hand experience even though those
people have not physically visited or seen the objects which are introduced in
the books. Also, despite the audio-visual equipment would be
prohibitive to install, the capital cost would be lowered by appealing to a
sizable number of users.
More
importantly, software could assist the library goers to access the Internet to
update their knowledge on a daily basis; in contrast, books typically take
multiple months to be published, which in turn rendertheir contents outdated to some
extent. In addition, upon learning that the computer literacy has become an
essential skill recently, public libraries should take on the responsibility to
educate its users how to operate a computer.
Furthermore, it is
a common practice for most public libraries to share their resources via the
Internet. In this way, even if one book of interest cannot be found in one
library, the borrower still could locate the book from other
libraries and then request the librarians to transfer the book to that
particular library.
In conclusion,
public libraries would benefit in multiple ways if they areequipped with the high-tech media.
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