What Do You Think a Library is?
According to Oxford Dictionaries, a library is "a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read and borrow". Well now when we look at libraries, we see that libraries do not need to be contained to four walls anymore. The reason for this is that libraries want to go out and engage and interact with their public. Libraries are beginning to move away from the traditional purpose of a building that provides a collection of materials and a quiet place to study to a more unconventional means to providing information. Not only are we seeing the actual structure of a library change but we are also seeing the information that libraries provide change as well. In order to stay relevant to the communities that libraries serve, libraries have to grow, adopt and change to their community that they want to reach. Libraries now are trying to reach people that don't have access to a library and also reach people that are educationally starved in one aspect or other. In these three libraries you will see how "unconventional" libraries are changing people's expectations, point of views, and even their lives. Hopefully these libraries will change the way you think about libraries and where libraries are headed in the future.