What happened to Libraries?

 Remember those?  A library in your school, your cities? It seems that with the rise of e-books and Amazon, there aren't as many as there used to be.


  Libraries were around since 2600 BC. The earliest for of writing and libraries were around when the first clay stone was created with writing on it.



   Decades later, during the Roman empire of 300 AD, there were over 28 public libraries, and now...

     who knows. Libraries were popular back in the day of the Roman gods as well, as back in the 1940's and 50's where most people would be found studying in a library. Before the internet, this is where we get most of our facts, and libraries were popping up almost everywhere in the US. There are famous ones that our still there, but it seemed that not too many people are coming into it, unless they need to look up something that they can't over the internet or Wikipedia.
Children would get homework information as they stare into books filled with facts on the world war. History typed up in white sheets of paper bound together.

  There are even National Libraries that are famous, not just for books, but for looks as well.


The National Central Library, established in 1714, is in Florence Italy. Famous for not only the books, but as well as a flood that damaged one third of the libraries holdings.

Another famous Library is the British Library, one of the largest in the world in London.

         The National Library was discovered by John Lee in the year 1556. Having a visionary plan to make Libraries helpful for readers so they wouldn't have to create their own stories just to read them.

Today, there are libraries, but not many as they're used to be.  I used to love getting a library card when I was little. I still have it, but I haven't been in the library for a lonnnnnngggg time. I even seen DVD's as well as books, even cassette tapes being in the library book on tapes as they call it.

     What will the future be for libraries? will they all be gone? Will they vanish like CD's, cassette tapes and even Blockbuster Video? God only knows. But I think for now, even though there aren't many libraries, they're are still some huge ones that are big. State Library of Pennsylvania is one of them.

 Located in Harrisburg, the SLoP is one of the biggest Libraries of Pennsylvania. And there are other popular libraries, such as:

New York State Library, 

Oregon State Library,

Library of Virginia and many more.

I'm guessing, libraries might be here to stay, but they aren't as popular as they were back in the 50's or 60's. Some Libraries even have Starbucks inside as well as muffins and even a small place where children can listen to others read stories.

I feel the power of reading is what's keeping libraries as well as books, alive, even though there aren't many, and they aren't as popular as staying at home and reading a book, or e-books, I feel Libraries are here to last.