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• There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just…
• In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
• Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
• They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons…
• Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
• 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…
• Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good…
• We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though:…
• I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed…
• The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
• In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,…
• Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read…

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