Role of libraries in facilitating and supporting learning
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The origin of the first libraries can be traced to human efforts in the document collection. Favorite topics would depend on accessibility, acquisition, identifying the tools for arrangement in appropriate order, the trade in books, getting hold of materials, their physical properties, their language and its distribution, the part they play in education, the level of literacy and the finances. Other factors would include the areas of staffing, targeting special audiences, its inseparable role in the development of the cultural heritage of the country involved, not to speak of the involvement of private sponsorship, the Church or the government in its affairs. Digitization and computerization started playing a major role since its advent in the 1960s.
The earliest library records could be traced to cuneiform script 2600 BC clay tablets, the papyrus temple records from ancient Egypt, the Nippur libraries of 1900BC and the thirty thousand clay tablets from 700 BC in a classified library system in Nineveh, highlighting the scrupulous work on religion, administration and literary skills of the Mesopotamian scholars that will mesmerize the modern enthusiasts. Among these tablets was also “Enuma Elish" or the “Epic of Creation" that presents the Babylonian concept of the “Epic of Gilgamesh."