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Some people might claim that the government
should spend more money on public libraries rather than schools, military or
public transit. However, this perspective is highly doubtful for two following
reasons which I am going to elaborate. From my point of view, I fully feel that
the government must invest less money on public libraries among three factors.
First of all, money set aside for public
libraries is always overwhelmingly more than that given to schools. Recently,
there have been proposed budget deductions for the schools in Korea, while the spending
on the public libraries continues to skyrocket. For example, there has been a
recent proposal to cut funding for schools in Seoul by 16 percent, while the
spending on public libraries continues to rise without much accomplishment. Frankly,
a small percentage of people use the public libraries on the regular basis
because today’s people spend most of their time at school or in the work
places. As a result, the schools fail to build new facilities to change
studying environment and to recruit a lot of skillful teachers due to the lack
of money. In contrast, the libraries have continually less readers. In this
respect, if the spending on libraries reduces, it would not significantly
affect a large number of citizens. This implies that the governments should pay
more attention to curtail funding for public libraries rather than schools.
On top of that, the library users have alternatives
that they can use if funding curbs. By using the Internet, even free of charge,
they can obtain vast amounts of reading materials such as e-books and
e-magazines. Further, in the future, people will no longer use the printed books.
For instance, Last semester, I had to write a report on origin of string instruments.
However, I was not familiar with the genre, so I did not know which books I
should utilize as references. After few minutes thought, I decided to use the
Internet in my research and in a matter of minutes, I could get a lot of
information about the string instruments from all of the world. If I had to do
find all that materials on printed books or magazines that are available in the
public libraries, I would have probably taken a whole week. E-books’ benefits
compared to printed books, such as its convenience, easiness to access and even
free, can impact millions of people in positive ways.
To sum up, the governments particularly invest
a lot of money on public libraries at all time. Moreover, despite the absence
of public libraries, there are diverse alternatives which people are available
readily. In this regard, I firmly believe that reducing deductions for public libraries
will be needed to resolve potential economic crisis.
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