What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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