Top 11 Scott Douglas Quotes
#1. I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.
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#2. The library - the place in my life that was full of books - beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.
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#3. We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.
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#4. The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.
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#5. When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either "You're joking, right?" or "They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?
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#6. To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better - to improve on the ideas of others.
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#7. I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.
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#8. It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it's about time to open a snack bar.
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#9. There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
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#10. It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian is always right. To the common man, this looks wrong, but to the librarian, this is right, because a librarian is never wrong.
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