- Benefits of virtual libraries and dictionaries
- 1- Access 24 hours a day to virtual libraries
- 2- Portable access to online dictionaries
- 3- Online learning and entertainment
- 4- Cost reduction
- 5- Ecological attitude
- References
Some of the benefits of virtual libraries and online dictionaries are their availability 24 hours a day, their wide variety of content, reduced costs, and the fact that most are free.
Within libraries there are dictionaries, which are books where words are defined and, in many cases, details of each language are explained. Libraries are spaces where books of different types and disciplines are kept systematically and in an orderly fashion, as well as other types of documents.
Virtual libraries can be accessed 24 hours a day
The history of libraries goes back almost to the same history of man's search for knowledge. There were many great and famous libraries such as the one in Alexandria, which contained a large number of books with history and ancestral knowledge.
Today, large modern institutions have huge libraries, such as the Congress of the United States of America.
The US legislature has one of the largest on the globe, with 130 million copies on its shelves.
The digital age has made us connected to great sources of knowledge.
Benefits of virtual libraries and dictionaries
1- Access 24 hours a day to virtual libraries
Through the global computer network, better known as the Internet, we can access many libraries throughout the world from the comfort of our homes.
Virtual libraries have digital versions of the books they have stored at their headquarters.
It even has online systems available to more easily get books or documents that we need to access the information.
2- Portable access to online dictionaries
Nowadays the big dictionaries have a web page to access the definitions they contain without any difficulty.
In addition, the good news is that the large dictionaries also have applications for smart phones and with a couple of clicks you can access data, definitions and uses of words that online dictionaries make available to users.
3- Online learning and entertainment
It is possible to find games of various kinds related to the meanings and uses of words in online dictionaries or in the versions of mobile applications.
Other online dictionary games help you memorize new words that are not common and thus expand your vocabulary.
4- Cost reduction
Many universities or colleges do not have extensive libraries because of the prices of books. A good library requires hundreds of books and documents, perhaps thousands.
The option of being able to access virtual libraries or online dictionaries helps reduce the costs of acquiring and maintaining large physical libraries.
5- Ecological attitude
Many people like the smell of new books, but printing them requires a lot of paper and ink to make a copy of our favorite author complete.
All that paper comes from hundreds of trees that are processed so that they become leaves where the letters of the texts will be placed.
Promoting the use of virtual libraries implies less paper, therefore less trees cut down so that we can have a book in our hands.
We can easily connect and access from a computer to be environmentally responsible.
References
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- Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Year In Review 2001. GAUGHAN, THOMAS. Encyclopædia Britannica. Recovered from the site: britannica.com.
- reference work. WALKER, ALLEN. Encyclopædia Britannica. Recovered from the site: britannica.com.
- What is the concept of a virtual library? THE NEWSPAPER. Recover from the site: eldiario.ec
- Image N1. Author: Gerd Altmann (2012). Recovered from the site: pixabay.com.