“Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.” — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.” — Linton Weeks Copy Share Image
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'll just hang upside down from the wire banana and throw bags of flour at the librarians.” — Lissa Evans Copy Share Image
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
“Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!” — Charles Ogden 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
“Words, words, words taken out of place and mutilated, words from other men — those were the alms left him by the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Johanna was looking at her expectantly, and suddenly Ravna realized that the girl thought librarians must be experts at everything.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim." -- Linton Weeks, Washington… — Linton Weeks Copy Share Image
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information… — Clifford Stoll 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
“A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more… — Scott Douglas 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
“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
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly… — Marilyn Johnson 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
“He checked out his surrounding. More books. A drinking fountain. A poster showing a guy slam-dunking a basketball with one hand and… — Mac Barnett 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
“But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response—librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“And now a word about librarians. We are all, from our youngest years, warned that the most dangerous, untrustworthy creature is that… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
