Some people argue that keeping libraries is a financial burden and computers are proposed to take their functions to store information. This essay agrees with the statement because traditional libraries require a huge maintenance cost than that of computers.
Maintaining books in libraries is costly while the amount of information is limited. On the one hand, storage rooms in libraries need an advanced air conditioning system to regulate temperatures and humidity so that those documents can be maintained in good condition. On the other hand, the number of people who visit libraries is low because they usually come for literatures that are not available in digital format. For example, the government of Jakarta spends almost 1 million dollars annually to maintain the city's library, but there are only 100 visitors on average in each month. In my opinion, this is not a wise investment in storing information.
In contrast, modern computers can store terabytes of data, which is equal to millions of pages, in a small form factor. In addition, their running cost is also cheap, they do not need advanced air conditioning and electricity consumption is low. For example, the Singapore state library scanned all books and then stored it in a data centre in 2006. As a result the government has saved around 10 thousand dollars per year from maintenance cost. In my opinion, this is the correct approach for storing information.
In conclusions, keeping information old documents in traditional libraries costs governments a lot of money and they better transfer it to digital formats. I believe this way can save their money from lower maintenance cost.
Some
people
argue that keeping libraries is a financial burden and computers
are proposed
to take their functions to store information. This essay
agrees
with the statement
because
traditional libraries require a huge maintenance
cost
than that of computers.
Maintaining books in libraries is costly while the amount of information
is limited
. On the one hand, storage rooms in libraries need an advanced air conditioning system to regulate temperatures and humidity
so
that those documents can
be maintained
in
good
condition.
On the other hand
, the number of
people
who visit libraries is low
because
they
usually
come
for literatures that are not available in digital format.
For example
, the
government
of Jakarta spends almost 1 million dollars
annually
to maintain the city's library,
but
there are
only
100 visitors on average in each month. In my opinion, this is not a wise investment in storing information.
In contrast
, modern computers can store terabytes of data, which is equal to millions of pages, in a
small
form factor.
In
addition, their running
cost
is
also
cheap
, they do not need advanced air conditioning and electricity consumption is low.
For example
, the Singapore state library scanned all books and then stored it in a data
centre
in 2006.
As
a result the
government
has saved around 10 thousand dollars per year from maintenance
cost
. In my opinion, this is the correct approach for storing information.
In conclusions, keeping information
old
documents in traditional libraries
costs
governments
a lot of
money and
they better transfer it to digital formats. I believe this way can save their money from lower maintenance
cost
.