Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
Joan BauerTag: paraphrased libraries librarians
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
Elizabeth KostovaA good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
Lemony SnicketWhat a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
Harold HoweTag: libraries education school library
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
Carl SaganTag: wisdom libraries books education knowledge history civilization
In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.
Linton WeeksTag: libraries librarians washington-post
[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
Tag: libraries books censorship freedom-of-thought
Libraries are our friends.
Neil GaimanTag: libraries
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
Tag: libraries books liberty censorship freedom-of-thought banned-books bill-of-rights
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