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John Cotton Dana

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John Cotton Dana was an outstanding librarian, born on August 19, 1856, and died on July 21, 1929. He made significant contributions to library management, library education, and library services, and is regarded as a key figure in the American library profession.

A Library Primer

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“Art should be studied, not worshipped. Artworks should be preserved that they may help us, not that they may amaze and confound us. Above all, we should study them with the purpose of learning from them.”

Art Learning Museums

Author:John Cotton Dana

“One of the wider purposes of our museum is to make life better worth living- not by adding luster to riches and creating pleasurable reactions to the avowedly aesthetic, but by encouraging all to discover possibilities of agreeable emotions in the contemplation of things.”

Life Values Humanity Museums

Author:John Cotton Dana

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

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Author:John Cotton Dana

“The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.”

Firsts Next Library Public Education Public Library

Book:A Library Primer

Source: A Library Primer

“Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along in continuous joy, comfort and pleasure - to say nothing of a full-grown man. Money comes, not because it is ridden as a hobby, but because a real hobby is ridden so cleverly and carefully that it oozes out money on the side!”

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Author:John Cotton Dana

“The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.”

Needs Should Use Natural Library Transportation Trolleys

Author:John Cotton Dana

About the Author

Born: August 19, 1856
Died: July 21, 1929
Known for: Librarian
Quotes: 6

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