Melvil Dewey Quotes
- A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book…
- Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
- To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into…
- The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library…
- The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
- The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.