Why do we need a library today when digital reading is popular?

April 23rd is World Reading Day. The development of Internet technology has brought profound changes to reading. As a centralized public place for people to read, the Internet era has also sounded the door of library reform. Taking automation as a prelude, modern libraries are facing a new threshold of change after experiencing the development of electronic, digital and virtual libraries. ?

Even if the digital library is popular, it is still necessary, but it no longer needs to be open to the public. Some ancient rare books, such as the earliest printed Bible, A Dream of Red Mansions Manuscript, Dunhuang Documents, Yongle Grand Ceremony and Ancient Egyptian Papyrus, need to be carefully preserved in the library. In the future, physical libraries may be closer to museums. Only the functions and organizational forms have changed to a certain extent. In fact, there are some manifestations now, such as reading ancient books and saving some files. In the future, libraries will integrate some functions of libraries and archives, and in a certain period of time, the three will be integrated into the information center of the whole society, so it is definitely necessary to exist, but it will not reappear today. ?

There is no objection to the realization of knowledge, which is very normal and correct. I just want to say that there are actually free and more professional books in the library. Why should we be confused by the massive information on the internet and ignore the things around us? Writing answers is much easier than writing books. How many answers can be encoded in 20 thousand words? Answer the Lord and vomit blood. Moreover, 20,000 words is really too little for a book, barely enough for an undergraduate thesis. For professional content, it is not enough to introduce the word systematically. Short stories only exist in various periodicals and magazines, which are for readers with a certain foundation.

With the library, you can happily spend tens to hundreds of dollars to get a reader's card, and keep borrowing and returning it. If you want to borrow it, you don't need to buy it. Having a reader's card is like having millions of books and treating the whole library as your own. With the library, you can read any large domestic databases such as cnki, Wanfang and VIP. These databases need to be purchased by individuals or institutions. However, with a reader's card, it is just like your own database. Some public libraries are richer than university libraries. For example, the digital resources of Shenzhen Library exploded twice in the world in the library of a university of technology in South China. After all, there are schools and local governments on one side.