Tom Angleberger Quote

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba «las lecturas que toda señorita debe leer y que nadie quiere que lea»....

So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are. They’re sorting it all out for us.

Children's books can break [the] silence. Reading the un-bowdlerized classics of children's literature can help young people understand that racism is not anomalous. It is embedded in the culture, and...

Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.

. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none,Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teache...