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The library has become to emulate a space of distinction for what a city has to offer to its citizens in a democratic society, or as Manfrendini stated, public libraries epiotomize some of the few remaining genuine democratic spaces. Throughout history libraries have been affected by political shifts, changing power dynamics, growth and disintegration of empires, built up with gusto and enthusiasm, destroyed by wickedness and neglect. Libraries throughout history can be considered incredibly purposeful and anxiously useless, "channel order and chaos, house both print and digital, old and new, they can control and liberate the knowledge they contain". Libraries can be both an instrument to liberate to oppress and a tool for imperial conquest, assimilation and control. Libraries aim to encompass the whole memory of humankind make them vulnerable to complete erasure. Building where collections are housed can also be demolished, re-designed, or eliminated.