As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
If schools don't make books important then children who come from homes with no books, and who don't visit libraries, will never… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“I like libraries, if for no other reason than they give homeless people a place to hang out. There's something nice about… — Julia Walton Copy Share Image
“Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.” — Larry Stone Copy Share Image
There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on… — Jodi Rell 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
“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones.… — Mikita Brottman Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable… — André Brink Copy Share Image
“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. "Will you… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by… — Molly Corbett Broad Copy Share Image
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Germaine Greer 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
“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“I die and go to a library? Sure, it could be worse, but I’ve spent a lot of time in libraries this… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Now look ," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff… — Jenn McKinlay 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
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the… — Timothy Healy Copy Share Image
Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart… — Josie Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The library in 2020 will be ruled by geeks. In my happy vision for the future, libraries are ruled by benign geek… — Sarah Houghton Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
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