Eenhana Community Library

Black and White, Finnish Memories of Northern Namibia’

the Eenhana Community library is offering free computer lessons to any one who is interested and in addition to that.... you can also excess the internet via the free WiFi at the library. How awesome is that!

Largest cities or towns of Namibia

1 Windhoek Khomas 322,500 Walvis Bay
2 Rundu Kavango 61,900
3 Walvis Bay Erongo 61,300
4 Swakopmund Erongo 44,700
5 Oshakati Oshana 31,600
6 Rehoboth Hardap 28,600
7 Katima Mulilo Zambezi 28,200
8 Otjiwarongo Otjozondjupa 28,000
9 Okahandja Otjozondjupa 22,500
10 Ondangwa Oshana 21,100

Early libraries
Tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal containing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing—the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in temple rooms in Sumer,[2][3] some dating back to 2600 BC.[4] These archives, which mainly consisted of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, mark the end of prehistory and the start of history.[5][6]

Things were much the same in the government and temple records on papyrus of Ancient Egypt.[3] The earliest discovered private archives were kept at Ugarit; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at Nippur about 1900 BC and those at Nineveh about 700 BC showing a library classification system.[7]

Over 30,000 clay tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal have been discovered at Nineveh,[8] providing modern scholars with an amazing wealth of Mesopotamian literary, religious and administrative work. Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation,[9] which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh,[10] a large selection of "omen texts" including Enuma Anu Enlil which "contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations",[11] and astronomic/astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

Philosopher Laozi was keeper of books in the earliest library in China, which belonged to the Imperial Zhou dynasty.[12] Also, evidence of catalogues found in some destroyed ancient libraries illustrates the presence of librarians.[12]

A library is an organized collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both.[1] A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items. In Latin and Greek, the idea of bookcase is represented by Bibliotheca and Bibliothēkē (Greek: βιβλιοθήκη): derivatives of these mean library in many modern languages, e.g. French bibliothèque.

The first libraries consisted of archives of the earliest form of writing—the clay tablets in cuneiform script discovered in Sumer, some dating back to 2600 BC. Private or personal libraries made up of written books appeared in classical Greece in the 5th century BC. In the 6th century, at the very close of the Classical period, the great libraries of the Mediterranean world remained those of Constantinople and Alexandria.

A library is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, a corporation, or a private individual. Public and institutional collections and services may be intended for use by people who choose not to—or cannot afford to—purchase an extensive collection themselves, who need material no individual can reasonably be expected to have, or who require professional assistance with their research. In addition to providing materials, libraries also provide the services of librarians who are experts at finding and organizing information and at interpreting information needs. Libraries often provide quiet areas for studying, and they also often offer common areas to facilitate group study and collaboration. Libraries often provide public facilities for access to their electronic resources and the Internet. Modern libraries are increasingly being redefined as places to get unrestricted access to information in many formats and from many sources. They are extending services beyond the physical walls of a building, by providing material accessible by electronic means, and by providing the assistance of librarians in navigating and analyzing very large amounts of information with a variety of digital tools.

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all goverment libraries have wireless network, you have your notebook with? why dont you ask librarians in which ever town you are to give you the pass code, no need to beg for it. **smart**

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