Reading #3-Why the Next Big Pop Culture Wave after Cupcakes Might be Libraries

The first article that we were assigned dealt with comparing modern libraries to people of everyday society. In the article they made key points about libraries that made them seem like people. The first key point of the article was that libraries get into fights, this dealt with how the libraries don’t like to share their information and also how they have to fight over the funding that they receive. The next point that was made was about how librarians know stuff. In this point it talks about how librarians organize data and make it easily accessible to users of the libraries resources. The librarians will give you stuff for free is the next main point of the article. When you think about how much a book cost these days, they are expensive to buy. Well libraries will just give them to you to use for “FREE” this is a major bonus of using the library.
This article makes sense of the library and tries to put into terms most people can relate. When you think of a library there are many things that you can compare them to, but this article does a good job at making sense of the library. I think that this was a good read and better helped me understand some key points to what the library actually does.