Top Ten Reasons Libraries Are Still Important

Slide 1: Top 10 Reasons Libraries Are Still Important Chuck Hamaker Associate University Librarian for Collections & Technical Services J. Murrey Atkins Library - UNC Charlotte

Slide 2: #10 No single player has more "marbles" than libraries worldwide.

Slide 3: #9 It takes four to tango (publishers, vendors, writers and readers). Libraries bring them together.

Slide 4: #8 Without libraries there would be no tinfoil hats.

Slide 5: #7 Libraries champion freedom of thought.

Slide 6: #6 Who else would buy all those books professors write?

Slide 7: #5 Someone has to try to maintain graffiti-free public bathrooms.

Slide 8: #4 No one has devised a better system for identifying, gathering, collating and exposing the world's knowledge. "Information is the currency of democracy” --Thomas Jefferson "Libraries are the people's banks” --Library Media Project

Slide 9: #3 “Libraries are growing organisms: they change to meet societies' needs.” -- Ranganathan

Slide 10: #2 Libraries are great places to meet new people or take a nap.

Slide 11: #1 Libraries keep the lights on our cultural patrimony.

Slide 12: Questions? Chuck Hamaker cahamake@email.uncc.edu