"In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther……" — Marilyn Johnson
"In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste."
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Marilyn Johnson
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12 Quotes by Marilyn Johnson
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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…
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In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
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Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
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They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for…
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Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
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We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books,…
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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging…
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We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s…
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I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever…
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The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're…
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams,…
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
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