Public libraries should only provide books and should not waste their limited resources on expensive high-tech media such as software, videos or DVDs. Do you agree or disagree?

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 others assert they are only a waste of limited resources and should offer books only. High-tech media

is

Suggestion

are

, in many ways, superior to 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 potential prohibitive nature of installation of audio-visual equipment

,

Accept space

,

the capital cost would be lowered by appealing to a sizable number of users. More importantly,

software

Suggestion

the software

could assist 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, books typically take multiple months to be published, which in turn render their contents outdated to some extent.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 on the operation of 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 are equipped with the high-tech media.