Maintaining public libraries is a waste of time since computer technology is now replacing their function. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Technology is growing at an exponential pace and many old methods are now being taken over by computers. There are various heated debates happening over the topic, “which institutions should be replaced with innovations”, and one of them is whether maintaining public
libraries
nowadays is a waste of
time
. I think that
libraries
still
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a role in society, and they should not be shut down any
time
soon.
Firstly
,
libraries
offer facilities that computers are not providing,
for instance
, even today for many individuals
library
is a place where they can detach from the distractions of
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society and technology to focus on the work at hand.
Secondly
,
library
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is an important part of history that should be maintained for future generations to see, to illustrate, in the modern world of short
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and flashy advertisements,
library
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is a reminder about the importance of reading and quiet-
time
.
Therefore
,
library
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should be maintained not for the
amount
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of books it
have
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but for the environment it provides.
However
, there are many proponents to the
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argument
that maintaining a public
library
is a waste of
time
, since all of the knowledge
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in the
library
can be now stored in a memory card,
furthermore
, data about any topic can be accessed much
easily
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through the internet.
For example
, the
amount
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of books in a
library
about biotechnology might be limited and sometimes even outdated,
on the other hand
, one can easily get the most recently available knowledge about biotechnology if he/she
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the internet. In conclusion, with
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of technology and
inovations
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innovations
, the
existance
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existence
of
libraries
became questionable.
However
in my
opinon
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opinion
,
although
there are databases
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are much wider and easily accessible than the
library
, that
doesnot
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does not
doesn't
really provide a reason for
libraries
to become irrelevant.
Libraries
should be maintained for the facility it still provides, as well as a reminder about the importance of reading and quiet-
time
.
Thus
, in my
opinoin
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opinion
maintaining
libraries
is not a complete waste of
time
.
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