If libraries are not essential, then why have some of the world’s smartest and richest people such as Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates poured their time and money into them? (https://www.librariesareessential.com/why-are-libraries-essential/ )
Libraries have been around for 5,000 years. If they were not essential institutions, they would have died out long ago. (The first ones appeared in what’s known as the “fertile crescent” or “cradle of civilization” in Southwest Asia, according to The Library: An Illustrated History by Stuart A. P. Murray. http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2643 )
My brain and heart say that the values of libraries naver go down the knowledge in timeframe created are reposition in the libraries only not in internet and knowledge continuous ages have to be part of libraries due to science applicable in the libraries
Dear Mr. Parmar, I understand why you are asking this question. It is very unfortunate some universities & RD institutions in India are not showing interest to develop libraries citing many reasons. One common reason they say may be the Internet. Some people think that everything is available in the Internet and whey we should develop libraries. It is internationally well known that the Internet is a supplement to the library and not a replacement. That is why world renowned universities are still developing their libraries. I had the opportunity to visit some of the world renowned universities and Canada and found they show special interest to develop their libraries continuously. No doubt the top rated world renowned universities which are taking place in the THE or QS ranks are undoubtedly gives more funds for library development. In India also, the UGC shows interest to develop libraries as the NIRF ranking system gives good score for the universities which are allocating more funds to the library development. Quality education and research in India can be achieved only through development of state of the art libraries and also effective use of the library resources and services.
Thank you Dr. G.Rathinasabapathy for your valuable response! happy to hear from you.
You may read the book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker, or at least the Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Fold
When searching the Internet for end of libraries or death of libraries, you will find a lot of books, papers and online discussions.
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