Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomenes...
Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
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Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours...
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
It was in Durmond that I made the wonderful discovery of interlibrary loan, the greatest invention since the light bulb.[…]All the libraries were linked together, so no matter where I moved, as long a...
It seems so easy now to destroy libraries--mainly by taking away all the books--and to say that books and libraries are not relevant to people's lives. There's a lot of talk about social breakdown and...
A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch, Carrot drew himself up proudly, because someone's taken a ? You think that's worse than murder?The Librarian gave him the kind of...
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba
Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries
I have never seen a peaceful environment better than libraries
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.
If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.
It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable sour...
America's libraries are the fruits of a great democracy. They exist because we believe that memory and truth are important. They exists because we believe that information an knowledge are not the exc...
...a library is not just a reference service: it is also a place for the vulnerable. From the elderly gentleman whose only remaining human interaction is with library staff, to the isolated young moth...
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or...
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, commu...