Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.
Libraries are not made, they grow.
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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