The library concept cuts back to the millennia. The library was first established in the ancient Middle Eastin the 7th century BCE by an Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal in Nineveh. The library contained approximately 30,000 cuneiform tablets assembled by topic. Ashurbanipal was very protective of his library, the inscription of his text warns that potential thieves would face the wrath of the gods. The library at Alexandria in Eygpt, for example, is believed to have held 700,000 documents from Greece, Persia, Egypt, India, and other regions. The world-famous Bayt al hikmah known as the “house of wisdom” was another super library established in 830 BCE. The goal of ancient libraries was simple: to collect knowledge, learn from it, and use it to make life better. Throughout the centuries, people started to realize the benefits of having publicly accessible hubs of knowledge, and libraries became commonplace in cities and towns around the globe. As the internet grew from the 1990s to the 2000s many speculated that there would no longer be a need for libraries and that everything you could want to know or learn can be used on computers. One reason is that not everything can be found on the internet, is that you can find a crazy amount of information resources that remain on paper in libraries.
I find it interesting how the library at Alexandria in Egypt has held 700,000 documents,” Hannah Rathbun (12) said.
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