Library Quote by Kenneth A. Bruffee Download Open image ““Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.”” — Kenneth A. Bruffee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Library
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the… — Barbara Fister Copy Share Image
“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the heartbeats of… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“A community that doesn't think it needs a library isn't a community for whom a library is irrelevant. It's a community that's ill.” — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.” — Matt Finch Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.” — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as… — Stephen Abrams Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.” — Kenneth A. Bruffee Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“She might ban me from the library." "The marvelous thing about libraries is that their contents can be easily moved.” — Alissa Johnson Copy Share Image
The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. — Katharine Sharp Copy Share Image
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image