The document discusses the importance and value that public libraries provide to communities. It outlines how libraries promote early literacy, culture, and serve as a multimedia gateway to worldwide knowledge. Libraries provide a welcoming environment for work and idea generation. They signify belonging, welcome, and being free from judgment. Libraries also offer education, information, cultural appreciation, recreation, and a place to invest spare time. Even in the digital age, libraries remain important community hubs for knowledge creation and discourse. Libraries loan materials, provide reference services, current awareness updates, online searching, training, and prepare lists to serve their beneficiaries.

1. Libraries Matter
“The purpose of the public library is the pursuit
of happiness first and education second.
Happiness and education it’s all good
John Cotton Dana
Over 100 years ago, the first city librarian

2.  Early Literacy
 Culture memory
 Multi media gateway to all the world
knowledge entries to the are literature and
music
 Welcoming environment office workers
 Idea stores
 Library is definitely my favorite place to
brainstorm new ideas.
Role libraries play

3. Library card means a lot of things :
 It means welcome .
 It says you belong here.
 It says we will not judge you by your look, wealth,
your lifestyle.
 It says more than anything welcome home.
 Free passport over the world gives ideas and other
culture. That place is refuge have to be saved.

4. What Library gives :
 It give freedom to explore and to choose and
they also teach children the books and ideas
can be should be shared. They bring the books
back you know that some one else shares.
 Education service
 Information service with accurate information
 Culture service “raise the level of participation
interaction appreciation of all Art and writings
 Comfort recreation and play positive role to
invest people their spare time.

5. Why do we still need libraries in the age of digital,
real-time information?
We should work to use the library as a hub for
community-based knowledge creation and
discourse

6. How Libraries Work
1- Loan services - Foreign loan and Re-new the loan.
2- Reference services – direct reference material loan- indirect
reference such as arrange on shelves or to the correct or
position.
3- Current awareness Service. It aim to keep the beneficiary in
line with the latest development in the field of interests.
4- Search on-line service.
5- Imaging and cloning Service.
6- Training beneficiaries service – how to use different sources
provided.
7- Preparation of lists biographical –whether these list of
authors or tittles or subjects and printed on paper or copied to
disk.