An attempt...

I imagine a library like home, but more like my home in Chicago with parents and siblings. We survive and thrive from a tradition of hard-work, food, conversations, and mutual understanding. However, it does not always work out perfectly. There are moments when situations may be discomforting and or difficult, but certain actions or exchanges help to make life at home easier. Every person, to the youngest, plays a specific role: mother is a housewife who is in charge of any and everything, along with working a part-time job; my father is the blue-collared worker who brings in the majority of the funds; my siblings study, but also contribute to maintaining order in the house; and I, if I still worked as a SpEd tutor, would also contribute towards the financial stability of the family. In the end, we all come back home, we all are interdependent on one another. Without my father, we would have no place to live; without my mother, there would be no food, clean clothes, no life; without my siblings, certain chores would not get completed; without me, there would be no utilities and no one to look after my brothers. If we begin to break down, neighbors will be affected by it, whether personally or from a distance. In a similar sense, a library’s significance to university students’ success is unequivocally important.

A library exists to provide assistance to students from different backgrounds and a space for intellectual growth. Students and professors rely on these services for the purpose of investigation and sharing knowledge. Remove the libraries from campus and you take away access to the various outlets of information, as well as jobs and the people who are more than willing to give a helping hand. Without libraries, the university’s campus would be nothing but dorms and classrooms with limited access to resources for the advancement of higher education. As a result, the students’ and professors’ intellectual property would be of poor quality and affect the university's reputation, retention rates, economic means, etc. Therefore, libraries, as much as homes, are essential institutions for community and intellectual development.