Which is more important, students' sport activities or libraries...

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students' sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
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Students' sports activities are important for students' recreation but University libraries are more important. Libraries have a lot of wonderful features that we have to take into account but in this moment i am thinking in three features which can summarize why they are so important: Libraries as a researching center, libraries as a source of personal development and libraries as an interactive place.

Libraries are researching centers where you can find a lot of updated news and the latest information of everything. Are places, where you can find from specialized books to inspirational material for new designs or pieces of art. A library is the difference between a competitive university and non-competitive one.

What better place to improve your personal development, that a university library! Libraries are a wonderful source of personal development. Examples are: when you have to use a proper behavior like; to be organized with the books, to be quiet and respectful and to be the discipline giving back the books to the library. This kind of behavior shapes great professionals. Real professionals!

Moreover, university libraries are places which allow to you, to interact with others. These places gives to you the opportunity to talk with somebody else and probably he or she share your same likes and you can hold a interesting conversation with him or her about some nice topic. In other words, libraries are great places that help to you to have an excuse to talk with somebody.

As a conclusion, I think universities should give a bigger amount of money to university libraries than students' sport activities. Libraries are the key to have wonderful researching centers, professionals with a great personal development and people who interact with others sharing information and holding important chats. Do not miss the opportunity to be in a complete library, it is wonderful experience.

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