The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else.
Lucy DillonI always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.
Mo WillemsTags: libraries books obvious literary library sage-advice
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
Cecil B. DeMilleI ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
Virginia WoolfTags: libraries reading treasure
The most important thing of all
was not the poverty
of its essence,
but that it was there.
Tags: libraries
A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignity and silence are not prior requisites to learning […] He would like, needs, and deserves for other people to stop trying to protect him and allow him the right to choose information for himself […] Most of all the teenager needs people in libraries to recognize and accept him as a respectable human being.
Anne OsbornTags: libraries
Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.
Seth GodinTags: libraries librarians kirjastonhoitaja kirjastot
In the library
I search for a good book.
We have many books,
says Mrs. Rose, the librarian,
and ALL of them are good.
Of course she says that. It's her job.
But do I want to read about
Trucks
Trains and
Transport?
Or even
Horses
Houses and
Hyenas?
In the fiction corner
there are pink boks
full of princesses
and girls who want to be princesses
and black books
about bad boys
and brave boys
and brawny boys.
Where is the book
about a girl
whose poems don't rhyme
and whose Granny is fading?
Pearl, says Mrs. Rose, the bell has rung.
I go back to class
empty-handed
empty headed
empty-hearted.
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!
Tags: humor libraries cleopatra thomasina
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: libraries
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