One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there… — Tom Peters 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
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books… America's greatness is not only recorded in… — Terence Cooke Copy Share Image
“Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed… — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school.… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Libraries represent the sole contemporary American institution with the potential for making available a wide-ranging, genuinely diverse spectrum of opinions, cultural expressions,… — Sanford Berman Copy Share Image
“We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like… — Cath Staincliffe Copy Share Image
“I thought I appreciated books, but this was an alter to the book gods. It was hard not to be impressed. I… — Victoria Abbott Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“...it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,… — Charles Gates Jr Copy Share Image
“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully… — James Billington Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Libraries—like train stations, crossroads, church belfries, and attics—are places where worlds leak together, where the Management, in its ineffable wisdom, tends not… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this.… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
