A PUBLIC LIBRARY

VARIOUS DEFINITONS OF WHAT A PUBLIC LIBRARY/EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER IS:

Description of  a Library/ Educational Resource Center:

-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is a creation of various shared learning materials or books of libraries where scholars could go to search information and new ideas from various sources of avenues that they didn’t have to own.

-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is a warehouse for informational materials worth sharing.

-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is the local nerve center for information.

-A Library/an Educational Resource Center is a place where people do come together to do co-working and co-ordinate and invent projects worth working on together.

-A Library/ an Educational Resource Center is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In more traditional sense, a Library/an Educational Resource Center is a collection of various learning and instructional learning educational materials.

-This is a place where over one thousands things could be done in a place all built around under one mission: “Take the World, Data, combine it with the people in the community and create a value”.

-A Library/an Educational Resource Center room contains collections of books, periodicals, magazines films and recorded music CDs for people to read, ,listen, view, borrow or refer to.

-A library is a place with shared books, and plenty of fun books, hopefully inculcating a lifelong love of reading, because reading makes people more thoughtful, better-informed and more productive members of a civil society.

N.B There is a wrong perception that libraries are just a place for books, but in the modern era, a Library/an Educational Resource Center, is a place where various educational information, and various categories of books, Audio-visual materials, Lectures, Authors, Discussions, Computers, various Educational Programs (workshops, Seminars etc), - collectively that make a tremendous resource in any given community (As defined by Linda Duttenhaver Los Angeles Public Librarian).

A Library/an Educational Resource Center acts as a public community center.