The idea that a modern library is, or should be, a central Bureau of Information for its town or city is one that we first have to get thoroughly into our own heads, and then impress upon our public.
Who, passing by a modern library building, branch or central, can by any possibility see through the windows enough of the interior to tell whether it is a library rather than a postoffice, a bank, or an office?
A modern library with no readers is unthinkable; it is no library, as we now understand the word; though it be teeming with books, housed in a palace, well cataloged and properly manned.
This means that many of the things in a modern library seem to an old-fashioned librarian and an old-fashioned reader like unwarranted extensions or even usurpations.
I had been trying as well as I could to express something of this kind, that the real trouble with the modern library was not with the modern library, but with me.
The only way one can get any real good out of a modern library seems to be by going away in the nick of time.
In modern library practice, methods of book-registration involving the use of ledgers or day-books have now been entirely abandoned, save in a few proprietary and subscription libraries.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern library" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
