Cataloging Quote by Alberto Manguel

“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these libraries were…

— Anders Rydell

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest…

— Adam Clayton

“Everything is 'smart' now. The library cataloging system is smart, classification and indexing information entered into a uniform online database. People wept and lamented…

— Christopher Sorrentino

“Every decade archaeologists discover another few forgotten scripts. Some of them might prove to be even older than the Sumerian scratches in clay. But…

— Yuval Noah Harari

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends…

— James H. Billington

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of…

— Archibald MacLeish

I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but…

— Leslie Jamison

Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

— Nick Hornby

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.”

— William Dyer