With the advent of the Internet, libraries have also been modernized. In addition to paper books, in modern libraries you can get temporary access to the electronic version of the work you like, as well as read the literary work of interest right in the reading room on the screen of the library computer monitor.
When almost every computer owner got the opportunity to connect to the global network, interest in reading literature among young people dropped dramatically for a while. Over time, portable devices for reading books appeared on the market, and it became fashionable to read again, only now they began to search for books on the Internet, and not in libraries. And if the libraries hadn’t caught up in time and kept pace with the times, they would have been waiting for a general closure.
Modern library
Unlike the first libraries, which occupied huge halls and stored tens of thousands of books, a modern library can even be located in a small kiosk. And dark, so that the paper does not deteriorate, book storages are gradually becoming historical monuments and repositories of relics in massive bindings.
Connoisseurs who love the rustle of pages and the yellowness of book paper can still go to the library or go to a second-hand bookstore and delight themselves with new reading materials. Those who prefer the essence of the story in the book to the classic form factor go to the library, where you can download files with the works of writers and poets to a portable book reader, smartphone or tablet computer.
The principle of issuing e-books in a modern library is similar to the subscription system. Only instead of a subscription and a coveted book with a library seal, the reader receives a code. This code must be entered on the site, after which access to reading the selected literary work will open.
The future of libraries
Book exchange services are popular in a number of European cities. At public transport stops, there are huge bookcases, in which everyone can borrow a book, and there you can put already read works.
Another "library" innovation, found both in Europe and in Russia, stands with QR codes. Links to books located on the Internet are encrypted in the codes. Books are distributed both for a fee and for free.
Such "libraries" stimulate the audience's interest in books, and it is quite possible that for a dozen e-book lovers there is one person who wants to get a subscription in the old district library and hold a shabby-bound volume of Yesenin in his hands.
In other words, the availability of the Internet has not become a reason for the decline in the popularity of libraries. Rather, on the contrary, the Internet has contributed to the modernization of the library system, and also revived the fashion for reading and, as a result, for expanding the horizons.
