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title: "7 Library Science Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Library Science quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Library Science sayings and thoughts."
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> [“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-norris/i-was-vaguely-attracted-to-both-library-science-and-accounting-for/)

[Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-norris/)

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> [My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-richard/my-grandmother-had-a-ph-d-in-library-science-so-i-grew-up-in-a/)

[Dawn Richard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-richard/)

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> [“We need James Bond with a library science degree.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-sloan/we-need-james-bond-with-a-library-science-degree/)

[Robin Sloan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-sloan/)

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> [Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/library-science-is-the-key-to-all-science-just-as-mathematics-is-its/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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> [Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/dad-claims-that-library-science-is-the-foundation-of-all-sciences/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenn-mckinlay/it-was-funny-how-none-of-her-classes-in-library-science-has-prepared/)

[Jenn McKinlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenn-mckinlay/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63b/jenn-mckinlay-33552_curriculum_it-was-funny-how-none-of-her-classes-in_2886107.jpg)

> [“It was funny how none of her classes in library science had prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jen-mckinlay/it-was-funny-how-none-of-her-classes-in-library-science-had-prepared/)

[Jen McKinlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jen-mckinlay/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec4/jen-mckinlay-247159_curriculum_it-was-funny-how-none-of-her-classes-in_3015154.jpg)

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