“A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future.” LibraryLibrarianLibrariesLibrariansLibrarianshipLibrary ScienceLibrary And Information Science Book:This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All Source: This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
“I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and took up professional whistling, the most engaging obit subjects were librarians. An obituary of a librarian could be about anything under the sun, a woman with a phenomenal memory, who recalled the books her aging patrons read as children—and was also, incidentally, the best sailor on her stretch of the Maine coast—or a man obsessed with maps, who helped automate the Library of Congress's map catalog and paved the way for wonders like Google Maps.” LibrariesLibrariansObituaries Book:This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All Source: This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
