Quotes About Libraries And Librarians

#1. I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Neil Gaiman

#2. The type of librarians who are thriving most consistently in the digital era are those who have found a way to operate as a node in a network of libraries and librarians. They are agents of change, actively creating the future instead of constantly reacting to it -

John Palfrey

#3. Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Barbara Bush

#4. I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Heraclitus

#5. Some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.

Richard Armour

#6. I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

Augusta Scattergood

#7. The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

S.A. Tawks

#8. It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Neil Gaiman

#9. The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

Stephen D. Krashen

#10. Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.)

Ellen Klages

#11. Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

Willard Scott

#12. A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

Trudy Wallis

#13. [I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.

Kate Messner

#14. As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

Raymond Chandler

#15. To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of sin. Whenever God grew impatient and decided to destroy the world he remembered the librarians and stayed his hand.

Jane Langton

#16. Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

Peter Morville

#17. I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I'll never forget my librarian.

John Lewis

#18. Every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.

S.R. Ranganathan

#19. Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Janis Ian

#20. Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Patrick Ness

#21. We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.

Herbert S. White

#22. Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

Neil Gaiman

#23. Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon
You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

Karl Kesel

#24. You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

Graham Chapman

#25. Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.

George W. Bush

#26. It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.

Kelly Link

#27. Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.

Donald A. Barclay

#28. Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

Charles Ogden

#29. Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

Guy Browning

#30. And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#31. In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

Jose Latour

#32. Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

Neil Gaiman

#33. To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

R. David Lankes

#34. I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

Paula Poundstone

#35. I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries. What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

David McCullough

#36. The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Terry Pratchett

#37. Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Neil Gaiman

#38. There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

Garth Nix

#39. Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.

Seth Godin