Museum-libraries Quote by Richard Fortey

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

— Will Thomas

“It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I’d never seen anybody in a library pick up a small…

— Josip Novakovich

“To a greater extent than before, the retailer has to use skill and judgement to allocate scarce shelfspace.”

— Greg Thain

“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose…

— Anne Fadiman

“The worth of a book is too be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

— James Bryce

“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal volumes lay…

— Ariel Lawhon

“A ‘library’ turned out to be a room where books were read. The fact that people used to have so many books that they…

— R. Lee Smith

“For years I have been coming to this library, and I explore it volume by volume, shelf by shelf, but I could demonstrate to…

— Italo Calvino

“Figure 3.3 Sloping shelves create a sense of greater openness without expanding the aisle width at floor level.”

— Herb Sorensen

“The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.”

— Neal Stephenson

“There is no bag big enough for all of my books to fit in”

— Anonymus Autor