Library Quotes - Page 40

• We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Book, Bricks And Mortar, Circles

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• The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Magic

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• Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

  Melvil Dewey

  Book, Inspiration, Giving

  "Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship".

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• Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  Research, Renaissance, Labs

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• In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Commitment, Loss, Player

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

  Caitlin Moran

  Community, Festivals, Emergencies

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “Moranthology”, p.211, Random House

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• I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Book, Immortality, Knows

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• People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

  Robert D. Putnam

  People, May, Information

  Robert D. Putnam, Lewis Feldstein (2009). “Better Together: Restoring the American Community”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

  Scott Turow

  Business, Technology, Support

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• Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

  Maxim Gorky

  Art, Book, Men

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• "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

  Robertson Davies

  Daughter, Running, Children

  "Tempest-Tost" by Robertson Davies, (Part 1), 1951.

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• ...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

  Irving Kristol

  Philosophical, Views, Civilization

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• When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it.

  Jesse Shera

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

  Peter Drucker

  Needs, Tools, Use

  Peter Drucker (2013). “The Changing World of the Executive”, p.37, Routledge

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• A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Librarian, Democratic, Educated

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• How index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Eels, Tails

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

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• The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Book, Librarian, Should

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• Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Book, Giving, Attention

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• For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.

  Francis Darwin

  Book, Cutting, Science

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• Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Serene, Laboratory

  "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire. Volume 2, p. 228, archive.org. 1902.

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• Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

  George Henry Lewes

  Writing, Science, Mathematician

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

  Robert Mayer

  Science, Numbers, Genuine

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• [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
  [Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Science, Historic

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• A library is also a place where love begins.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Love Is

  FaceBook post by Rudolfo Anaya from Nov 30, 2016

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• [Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

  Bernard Berenson

  House, Rooms, Living Room

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