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 LankesTag: libraries change librarians community
An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran into the public library. Uniformed police surrounded the building, and the library director was notified that only unobtrusive plainclothesmen were entering the building. Their instructions: “When you find him, overpower him. Quietly.” It was done, and only a few people in the crowded building saw a handcuffed man being ushered past the checkout counter. “See,” one librarian remarked quietly to an amazed person, “that’s what happens when you don’t pay your book fines.
Ray B. BrowneTag: silence librarians quiet library fines
Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.
David Foster WallaceTag: prostitution addiction librarians recovery prostitutes sex-work
Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.
Margaret MahyTag: librarians
Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.
Tessa DareTag: librarians dedication booksellers
I also work here because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to anything else. As a breed, we're the ultimate generalists. I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live.
Josh HanagarneTag: librarians
A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken a book? You think that's worse than murder?"
The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like "What's so bad about genocide?
Tag: libraries books librarians
I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.
Augusta ScattergoodTag: libraries librarians civil-rights-movement mississippi-authors
You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.
Molly HarperTag: librarians jane-jameson molly-harper nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs
A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.
Antony BeevorTag: librarians research archivists stalingrad
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