Our College Library
English Essay on "Our College Library"
A library is a treasure-house of wisdom. Here all those who wish to enrich their minds with the most valuable human experience are welcome. It is in a library that a student explores the realm of knowledge and develops a feeling of belonging to the whole of mankind. Our college library is not a big one. It has rather a small collection of books but it meet the requirements of the students. The books have beers carefully and wisely selected to create in the students love for literature and learning. Thus in spite of the limited number of books, it is of great help to the students.
Our library, along with the reading room, is housed in a separate block of the college. The bookcases with glass fronts are placed all along the walls. Books on different subjects are systematically arranged in separate book-cases. When you enter the library you will find on your right book cases containing books of fiction.educationsight.blogspot.com A little further, are books on travel and adventure.
Poetry and drama come next. Classics in simple dark dust covers fill a whole bookcase. Literary criticism fallows Shakespeare and Goethe. Next, there are a dozen bookcases full of scientific books. On one side there is the catalogue cabinet. In a room attached to the Library sits the librarian One half of the building serves as a reading room for the students. There, the students, when they feel like reading something, sit on chairs placed round a long table full of newspapers, magazines and illustrated periodicals.
I have observed that most of the students read books of fiction and ignore serious books which, if studied, would certainly develop their intellect. Even in fiction the sentimental novels seem to be more popular. Of course, we o not have a large number of these books. Our teachers help the students in selecting good books. Their mature taste will certainly lead the students to appreciate really good books. This is Important, for if one feeds on sensational stuff one will become, for the rest of one’s life, a helpless addict’ to, such stuff. But perhaps I do not possess enough knowledge to discuss such things.
What I know for certain is that I have spent many happy’ hours in the library and it memory will ever remain with me. What have I gained here? I cannot answer adequately. But one thing I have surely learned: the pleasures of reading are good in themselves.
Our library, along with the reading room, is housed in a separate block of the college. The bookcases with glass fronts are placed all along the walls. Books on different subjects are systematically arranged in separate book-cases. When you enter the library you will find on your right book cases containing books of fiction.educationsight.blogspot.com A little further, are books on travel and adventure.
Poetry and drama come next. Classics in simple dark dust covers fill a whole bookcase. Literary criticism fallows Shakespeare and Goethe. Next, there are a dozen bookcases full of scientific books. On one side there is the catalogue cabinet. In a room attached to the Library sits the librarian One half of the building serves as a reading room for the students. There, the students, when they feel like reading something, sit on chairs placed round a long table full of newspapers, magazines and illustrated periodicals.
I have observed that most of the students read books of fiction and ignore serious books which, if studied, would certainly develop their intellect. Even in fiction the sentimental novels seem to be more popular. Of course, we o not have a large number of these books. Our teachers help the students in selecting good books. Their mature taste will certainly lead the students to appreciate really good books. This is Important, for if one feeds on sensational stuff one will become, for the rest of one’s life, a helpless addict’ to, such stuff. But perhaps I do not possess enough knowledge to discuss such things.
What I know for certain is that I have spent many happy’ hours in the library and it memory will ever remain with me. What have I gained here? I cannot answer adequately. But one thing I have surely learned: the pleasures of reading are good in themselves.
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