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On libraries, bookshops and netbars

Anyway these days I wonder if it is all changing.

With the internet becoming so pervasive and so many books, magazines and journals going electronic, in many ways it is cheaper and more efficient to just have everything available online. It’s quite exciting actually to think that you can be on a subway in Beijing and reading an article in a Canadian journal that you found via a search through your mobile phone.

Though for all its efficiencies, I wonder if we lose something if we stop investing in public libraries.

I don’t feel the same romanticism for knowledge and literature when I go to a netbar to research nor do I think senior citizens feel comfortable surfing online in such public places amid gaming and qq chatters.

Furthermore the peace of mind and calm state within are often hard to obtain while using the World Wide Web which is so full of distraction that stimulates insatiable desire rather than fulfill deeper spiritual needs.

So what is the future of the library and what is the role and function of the librarian?

Well if we consider that traditionally libraries were storehouses of information, today they have to adapt and provide greater expertise to assist customers in their search for information.

As technology has enabled greater storage of information digitally it’s becoming increasingly important to manage information and be able to find what you want and here is where a librarian can help.