IMPORTANCE OF LIBRARIES IN MODERN ERA

 

THE TERM LIBRARY IS ORIGINATED  FROM THE LATIN WORD LIBER WHICH MEANS  "BOOK" . LIBRARIES ACTS AS A STORE HOUSE OF INFORMATION PROVIDING ACCESS TO VARIOUS DISCIPLINE OF KNOWLEDGE TO ALL CATEGORIES OF USER ACCORDING TO HIS OR HER NEED .  IN THE ANCIENT AGE  ACCESSIBILITY OF INFORMATION WAS MUCH RECRICTED  AMONG  CATEGORIES OF USER COMMUNITY  BUT WITH THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT AND UPLIFMENT OF MODERN SOCIETY IT FULFILS   EVERY READER DEMAND ACCODRING TO HIS OR HER NEED AT  ANY WHERE ANY TIME WITHOUT ANY PHYSICAL OR GEOGRAPHICAL BARRIER . LIBRIRES ARE PATH FINDER TO MODERN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM    PROVIDING ACCESS TO DIFFERENT KNOWLEDGE DISCIPLINE AND ALSO HELPS IN    PROMOTING   CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN MODERN SOCIETY ,IT ALSO  SERVES AS AN INFORMAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM  WHEREBY  EVER USER HAS THE RIGHT TO ACHIVE INFORMATION  WITHOUT ANY AGE BARRIER IN COMPARISON TO EDUCATION INSTITUTION , WHERE THE ACCESSIBILITY IS RESTRICTED  . LIBRARIES SERVES  IN FOSTERING KNOWLEDGE AMONG EVERY INDIVIDUALS AND THUS AS A GATE WAY OF KNOWLEDE DISCIPILNE , IT MAY BE COMPARED JUST LIKE A " RANGANTHAN'S SPIRAL OF SCIENTIFIC MODEL" WHERE KNOWLEDGE IS GENERATED CONTINIOUSLY BY NEVER ENDING PROCESS