Answer in comments below for feedback<\/p>\n
In your own words, as far as possible, give four reasons the writer presents in lines 35-46 in favour of maintaining traditional public libraries. (4)<\/p>\n
Despite Google we Still Need Good Libraries
\nIt may well be that public demand and technical change mean we no longer need the dense neighbourhood network of local libraries of yore. But our culture, local and universal, does demand strategically situated libraries where one can find the material that is too expensive for the ordinary person to buy, or too complex to find online. Such facilities are worth funding publicly because the return in informed citizenship and civic pride is far in excess of the money spent.<\/p>\n
Libraries also have that undervalued resource\u2014the trained librarian. The ultimate Achilles\u2019 heel of the internet is that it presents every page of information as being equally valid, which is of course nonsense. The internet is cluttered with false information, or just plain junk. The library, with its collection honed and developed by experts, is a guarantee of the quality and veracity of the information contained therein, something that Google can never provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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