Good riddance. Libraries are totally pointless and a waste of money.
Almost every book that is available at all can be accessed within seconds on any modern digital device. You will learn how extremely valuable that is when you actually are doing research.
Students should be taught how to actually do research, not how to waste time looking things up in some small buildings which doesn't have the resources they need.
Without a doubt in my entire academic life the books have been the least useful thing libraries contained.
Getting rid of them provides space for the good and productive things people do in a library.
It is important that students have quiet space to study. But libraries as book storages have very little utility and seem very hard to justify.
Ah, from that point of view, I can agree. It’s shocking how few books I can find in my local library. Not a single one by GK Chesterton, and half a million people live in my town. Wtf?
Still, I think we should keep books as available to citizens as possible.
>Still, I think we should keep books as available to citizens as possible.
I agree. But it is obviously far more cost effective and useful to have that access be digital first.
Do not understand me wrong, I like physical books. But for doing research it is almost always preferable to have the books be available digitally. And students should learn to make use of that.
Almost every book that is available at all can be accessed within seconds on any modern digital device. You will learn how extremely valuable that is when you actually are doing research.
Students should be taught how to actually do research, not how to waste time looking things up in some small buildings which doesn't have the resources they need.