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Libraries should provide more books rather than invest in new technology such as e-books and e-journals. Introduction  Currently, an increasing number of people have concern on how the public libraries make use of their limited resource. As a librarian, overall I disagree with the view that the public libraries should invest in new technology such as e-books and e-journals compared to providing more books. Libraries are places that people go to for information. According to ikipedia, a library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space. All these includes books,  periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps,  prints, documents, C!s, cassettes, videotapes, !"!s, #lu-ray !iscs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, and other formats. Libraries range in si$e from a few shelves of books to several million items. #ooks are only the tip of the information iceberg% they are there, and libraries can provide you freely and legally with books. &ore children are borrowing books from libraries than ever before ' books of all kinds. As a librarian, I honestly believed that a library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citi$en e(ual access to it. )hat includes health information and mental health information. It*s a community space. It*s a place of safety , a haven from the world. It*s a place with librarians in it. hat the libraries of the future will be like is something we should be imagining now. +hysical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand% they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them. )hey  belong in libraries, just as libraries have already become places you can go to get access to e-  books, and audiobooks and !"!s and web content. 1

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