Public libraries exist in almost every town and city of each nation to benefit the community. With the arrival of computer technology, they are believed to be soon things of the past. It makes sense when instead of traveling far to public libraries and suffering unwanted traffic congestion, people just operate the machine and surf endless pages about everything they want to know. It is, no doubt, to say that the world is at their fingertips since the day the smartest machine of humans, computer, came along.
Occasional discussion noise and stringent, complicated rules of lending and borrowing books in public libraries definitely contribute to driving people away from here. Some students often claim how terrible it is to be punished for over-time parking there while all they have to do is to pay only some hundred bucks for a kind of machine that works for them almost all life-time with no rules, no rights and no wrongs. That is why fanatic freedom- minds choose to be at home rather than dragging themselves to these places and waiting for long queues.
Behind this miraculous technological equipment are countless dangers, though. Their fans keep using it without knowing that one day, they lose total touch with the real outside world, and such information they are exposed to on the Internet through this machine is unchecked, unfiltered and distorted. Public libraries, despite its drawbacks, create a healthy environment where students are linked together with useful discussions, group-work activities and trusted systems of information. Smartly enough, schools and organizations have embedded a series of the most modern computer networks to search books, even resemble, recreate and incorporate the cozy atmosphere of home into libraries with coffee shops and cookie stands right next to stacks of books. There, people are inspired to learn, research and dig deeper into any field they want while being happily surrounded by both enthusiastic knowledgeable library staff and same goal-oriented friends. Staying at home, looking at the ceiling and facing an impersonal screen of computer, people, sooner or later, possibly end up in permanent autism and illusions. Reports have shown that the cases of committing suicide and depression among students are rising against the dominant use of home computer. Public libraries should, therefore, be actually built more and more to deter this unwanted life-picture and help bridge people intellectually and humanely.