Nowadays we're moving more and more into the cyber world and everything is becoming more and more involved with the virtual: even education. More and more schools are digitalizing their courses (which seems absurd to me because it almost defeats the purpose of education) and also their libraries. Can you imagine a school without real books in the libraries or libraries at all for that matter where you can do some research and stuff? I sure can't! Some schools are even changing their libraries into learning centers with computers where you can do your research.
I know, I know: it saves money and it is less time-consuming then having to go through a million books to find one or two that you really need. I get it; call me old-fashioned but I would rather do that than spend hours and days looking through an electronic library. Don't get me wrong, I spend a lot of my time on the computer every day, but I can’t really study with a computer; I get distracted, whereas at the library there's not a lot of ways to get sidetracked: you are actually there for the sole purpose of doing research and/or getting homework done and you don't have Facebook or any other sites to distract you. You do the research and then that's it. Maybe it's my short attention span but I cannot deal with the virtual when it has to do with serious things like libraries, books, etc. because I just like the traditional version of these kinds of things. Moreover I think they were far more effective in their classic form. A library without books is a ridiculous idea anyway.
