A great history is involved in what we know today as the library. The Vatican Library built by Pope Nicholas V set the standard during the Renaissance, and the one built by the Jews in the Vilna ghetto during WWII showed the importance of books to a community under siege. Meanwhile, the mythic third-century B.C. book burnings by Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi were an effort to erase history, as was the catastrophic destruction of millions of books by the Nazis in the spring of 1933. Dynamic characters lend this history a novelistic tone: Julius Caesar began the library movement in Rome; Antonio Panizzi, an Italian revolutionary and exile, turned the library of the British Museum into one of the world's greatest in the 19th century; more recently, Nikola Koljevic, a scholar turned Serb nationalist, directed the siege of Sarajevo that led to a book burning at the Bosnian National and University Library. (Battles, 23) Around the world, libraries have been known as the most traditional and conventional means of looking up information. It's a place filled with different mediums and types of information. Libraries are divided into types such as national, public, private, state, and regional. The biggest library is the Library of Congress located in Washington, D.C., USA. Everything from books to magazines to encyclopedias to videotape is available from anyone to use. The best part about using the library is it's free (except for the late fines). But underneath all the shelves of books and magazines is a lot of organization and coordination. The aspect of what makes the library so systematic is what we will focus on. .
This summer as a requirement for graduation, we engaged in a training course, which allowed us to exercise our strength of English in different fields. The field we chose was the library field. We began our training in the beginning of July and ended it at the end of August.
