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| By Irah Marie A. Mananggit |
From the classic and mundane interior to the innovated infrastructure, libraries still commit their fundamental function, to guide and give a home to the members of the society to cultivate their knowledge and cognitive capacity.
As Neil Gaiman said, libraries and librarians are frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and lack of imagination. People often perceive libraries as a mere room full of books, where in fact it is the threshold of profound knowledge and unending possibilities. A ‘boring’ book could actually open up a world of vast information and peculiar reveries. The librarian seating behind the desk is actually a superhero always ready to endow any educational data need.
Imagine an unembellished seed, it would not grow unless you expose it to sunlight, give it water, and bury it in the soil, sometimes it even needs fertilizers just to be sure. The same goes with every individual that has great potential waiting to be cultured in order to bloom, to reach its full ability to be used in any field of endeavor. The society is full of untouched seeds that only libraries and librarians could metamorphose to propagate into a beautiful garden of literates.
Libraries and librarians have already adapted to the new era of learning. Numerous offer electronic platforms for gaining new information, to enhance erudition, to educe what is possible within people. Hand in hand, let us understand that the only thing left to do is to recognize its capacity to make a little seed grow and bear the fruit of knowledge and establish the society's transformation flow.
Note: This is the winning piece of Irah during the Regional Essay Writing Contest for the National Book Week 2018. She got the second place among massive contenders in the Caraga Region. As part of the top 3 winners, she qualified to compete in the National Level.
