I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
Nick HornbyTag: libraries books organization cataloging
I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work
Larry BrownTag: libraries books mississippi-authors
I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.
Charles M. SchulzTag: libraries love charlie-brown
Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.
Stephen GreenblattTag: libraries
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.
Libba BrayTag: libraries words-to-live-by
It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old building shabby chic was being kind. It didn’t have automated stacks or self-service machines like the Management and Sciences library the other side of campus and the carpets and bookcases looked like they were probably the Victorian originals.
But on days like this one, where the springtime sunshine streamed in through the high windows and set the dust motes dancing, Harriet sincerely felt that those BSc lot could stuff their vending machines and state of the art study pods. The Old Library was clearly suited for those who had poetry in their souls, rather than numbers in their heads.
Tag: libraries university students
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
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
Augusta ScattergoodTag: libraries books civil-rights race mississippi-authors
I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.
Augusta ScattergoodTag: libraries librarians civil-rights-movement mississippi-authors
She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.
Augusta ScattergoodTag: libraries civil-rights-movement mississippi-authors
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