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“Everybody should have a librarian.”

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“Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy.”

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“Does he think the job of a librarian is so simple, so empty of content, that anyone can step up and do it for a thank-you and a cup of tea? Does he think that all a librarian does is to tidy the shelves?”

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“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

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Book:Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion

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“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work with them...I had to be able to take books from their places, run my finger over their backs, see how they opened, flick their corners straight. I wanted a perspective of bookshelves always in my eye. And books, books, books. This was not a rational way of determining on a career and was much tainted by mushiness. But it was the way in which my decision hardened, before I was fifteen years old, to become a librarian.”

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Author:Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford

“Librarians' values are as sound as Girl Scouts': truth, free speech, and universal literacy. And, like Scouts, they possess a quality that I think makes librarians invaluable and indispensable: they want to help. They want to help us. They want to be of service. And they're not trying to sell us anything.”

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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

“So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are. They’re sorting it all out for us.”

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“Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer.”

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“You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.”

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“That's how librarians are. They just can't help it.”

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Author:Carla Morris

“We have already remarked that the great scientific books are in many ways easier to read than non-scientific ones, because of the care with which scientific authors help you to come to terms, identify the key propositions, and state the main arguments. These helps are absent from poetical works, and so in the long run they are quite likely to be the hardest, the most demanding, books that you can read. Homer, for example, is in many ways harder to read than Newton, despite the fact that you may get more out of Homer the first time through. The reason is that Homer deals with subjects that are harder to write well about. (P. 331)”

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