Melvil Dewey Quotes About Librarians

• To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

  Melvil Dewey

  Strong, Heart, Greatness

• The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

  Melvil Dewey

  Teacher, Book, School

• The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

  Melvil Dewey

  Librarian, Triumphant, Militancy

  "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.

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