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Quotes About Libraries and Librarians

From http://www.ifla.org

Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.
-Cicero

Believers and doers are what we need -- faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books....
To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature,
is what should be instilled in our neophites.
-A Passion for Books by Lawrence Clark Powell

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
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In The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers

Mary Kay is one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
- The Callahan Touch by Spider Robinson

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
-Choruses from The Rock by T. S. Eliot

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
-Shelby Foote

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
Harold Howe, Secretary of Education