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> The interested always find a way

Yes, I agree, those who are already interested or motivated need less help.

But to educate most people, and young developing minds especially, brief browsy exposure to unplanned topics is what might create the interest and motivation in the first place. The peripheral glances at compelling covers and spines. The topics you didn’t come to search for and maybe you didn’t even know exist.

You can’t search an opaque virtual library for what you haven’t yet seen a spark or crumb of. Hands-on, tactile, flip flip flip, put it back, flip flip flip … irreplaceable.

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The curious will seek information wherever it may be.

Kids are naturally curious about the world, but keeping them engaged with learning and growing through exposure and study largely falls on parents and teachers.

We're living in the Information Age (for better or worse), and my kids have been exposed to far more topics than I came across in libraries. It's easy to keep them interested, but I feel like the disappearance of libraries reduces the accuracy and quality of Information.

I've seen mine and other's kids rattle off a crazy amount of "facts" but still fall short in problem solving, applying knowledge, etc.

Beautiful books!

A section of a library I used to visit used Bliss categorisation, which is just so conducive to discovery!