Commons

Public libraries are very important to democracy because we live in a world run by a democracy where we are free to say anything we want, practice any religion we want and so on and so forth. With public libraries that democracy and that freedom comes into play. Most libraries holster a variety a books, and they also have many of them, all containing different stories, different characters, and most all different genres. You could be reading a book about love and romance to a horrific slasher who knows? Also books are a great way of LEARNING! Hello College. A public library holds very knowledgeable books where we are free to read and learn about whatever we would like, and without that freedom and that free will just to go to a public library and read a book and learn something new, I'm not so sure that our freedom and our democracy would exist today. If you think about it, books are what teach us, I mean teachers teach us obviously, but where did they get there notes, and where did they learn what they will be teaching us? FROM BOOKS!

After reading Vaidhyanathan's article, he very much wanted to get the point across that we should appreciate our public libraries more, and I feel that he succeeded very much. I realized that libraries and books are a good sense of freedom, and without that freedom there would be no democracy, and that's how public libraries really reflect democracy with the freedom to read and learn about whatever we want.