“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!” — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“No one ever spoke above a whisper in the staff lounge, but I felt the need to shush her anyway. I gave… — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale… — T.E.D. Klein Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said.… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.” — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they… — Will Manley Copy Share Image
“He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“The other option was to go to the public library. Few people came back from a visit to the library. There was… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the… — John Robert Lewis Copy Share Image
“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.” — Peggy A. Borel Copy Share Image
“A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a… — Jesse Giles Christiansen Copy Share Image
“The truth is out there, but the truth also seems to be very subjective. With access to so many types of information,… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“I also work here because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
