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  As times change in this Technological Age of ours, some aspects of our culture start to become outdated.  VCR sets are now considered a part of the old times, as well as the basic DVD players that followed them.  Now people watch movies and TV shows on streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, or Disney Plus.  Video game systems are beyond the 64 bit pixelation system known on older consoles such as the original Nintendo.  Now millions upon millions of pixels make out a simple video game on updated consoles like the Play Station 5.  Even crazier is the shift away from traditional shopping.  Instead of just entering a store to get your everyday needs, now you can just order what you need on shipping websites such as Amazon.  Things we have taken for granted twenty years ago are becoming outdated and being replaced with something new entirely.

  With that in mind, why the heck do horror characters still solely rely on libraries to get their much needed information on the killers pursuing them?  Twenty years ago, this option would make a lot of sense.  After all, the Internet was still a huge buggy mess that took an hour to upload just a simple gif.  The library then would be the best vector for information, considering the massive collections of information people could gather volume by volume in minutes.  Though it would take a long time to scroll through thousands of pages to find the needed information, the library would be the best resource of information back at that time.

  However, this is not the case now twenty years later.  Now, information to take down your killer can be found in mere seconds on the Internet.  A mere search on Google or on Bing would give you hundreds if not thousands of results for the information you are trying to find.  While going to a library for such information is not out of the question, in many of these horror stories, time is of the essence.  Going to a library and searching through books for hours is going to just give the killer more time to hurt more people.  Searching the Internet is just the faster option and the one that in the narrative could save the most lives.

  Following this logic, it baffles me why horror characters still rely on only the library for information which they are just a Google search away from receiving.  While the charm of the library can never be outmatched by the Internet, the reliability of it in dangerous situations in which the minutes are literally ticking away is a lot lesser.  Sometimes doing the more reliable thing to solve a case is better, even if there really is not a lot of charm to it.

  Going to the library in a horror narrative now thanks to the invention of the Internet is as logic-fueled as going into a chainsaw-filled garage to hide from the psycho-killer.  It does not make any sense to the reader, nor does it help solve the situation fast enough. 

  The only case scenario in which a library could work now as an information vector is if the information in question is not something you could just easily find on the Internet.  This could be some forbidden knowledge, such as dark magic or the secrets of necromancy.  In those cases, a secret library of some sort would still work for the sake of the plot.  It would make logical sense to the audience and probably be something search engines like Google definitely would shy away from.  Plus, there is the risk of being labeled as some type of terrorist if your search engine information is available by government higher-ups.  Only with these criteria does a library seem like the preferable option for information gathering.

  Otherwise, going to the library in horror fiction is as outdated as the Atari entertainment system.  There is just no logic in the story to make it the more reasonable option for information gathering.