She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale figures sprawled silent and motionless over their reading, the reassuring feel of her book cart as she wheeled it down the aisle, and the books themselves, symbols of order on their backs - young adulthood reduced to "YA," mystery reduced to a tiny red skull.
T.E.D. KleinTags: libraries librarians library librarian
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.
Caitlin MoranTags: libraries books profound
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.
Nassim Nicholas TalebIn his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there
Jane AustenΟ μόνος τόπος στον οποίο η αθανασία είναι παρούσα, βρίσκεται στις βιβλιοθήκες!
Γκρεγκόριαν Δ ντής βιβλιοθήκης Ν.ΥTags: libraries
Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.
Kit PearsonLibrary-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
Joanne HarrisTags: humor inspirational libraries library
To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.
Sophie DivryTags: libraries books culture library
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism."
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011]
Tags: libraries
To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.
R. David LankesTags: libraries change librarians community
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