In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right...
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Libraries are, at heart, helpful and kind providers. It is hard for those who perhaps don't feel the need to visit their local libraries to understand what a vital service they provide for communities...
Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-m...
If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.
There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. -...
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I could do nearly anything if I could find the right book at the library.It was true; books h...
The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.
There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself
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