Are old books destined from Library to Museum?

Are old books destined from Library to Museum?

Collection of the Living with Nature Center Museum and Library

Dr Abe V Rotor

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on, you are enriched threefold." – Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

An old book about the UN, now a museum item. 

With the current world crisis, people ask, "Is the United Nations already senile?" (Founded in 1945, the United Nations is currently made up of 193 member states.)

"If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it." -  Norman Cousins

 

   

"Take the backseat," 

These books seem outpaced by advanced technology 

and knowledge explosion, AI notwithstanding. 

 

Who are interested with proverbs among the young? Who would still read Sophocles, or any Shakespearean literature  today?

"Tradition and classics are timeless.  

Timelessness makes them universal, too" - avr

 

  

At finger's touch, you can open a dictionary on the computer -  in fact, a whole library. Why bother opening a voluminous dictionary?  Remember the big Merrian-Webster dictionary, so huge it had a stand of its own? 

 

Books from Museum to Library, instead

Before: How's your grammar?

Now: How's your English?

Lately: How's your handwriting?

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

What a mix of books.  Indexing is a big and continuing task, even with  electronics today. Here is an example of such dilemma - asthma a medical condition, and dog training in the same shelf, plus many other books of varied topics.

  

We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." – Frederick Douglass

  

Orations, Declamations and Speeches

• Oh, Captain, my captain!
• Gettysburg Address
• I have a Dream.
• To be, or not to be... these continue to live in the library and museum - and in the hearts of humanity. - avr

  

Idioms - a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

 

Is Logic a Stairway to Philosophy?

Logic is the study of correct reasoning, while philosophy is the study of fundamental ideas about truth and knowledge. These disciplines intersect uniquely within logic in philosophy and the philosophy of logic. Logic in philosophy is one of many forms of applied logic.

 

"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them." – George Saunders

  

 Have a break.  Take the lighter side of human nature.

Neither the library nor the museum can lead the way.  - avr

* Photos of the book covers by the author; references (Internet, Living with Nature book series by the author)