42 quotes found
“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 hou...”
“The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.”
“All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.”
“I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the worl...”
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that we look them in the eye and take them seriously. Our work ...”
“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either Youre joking, right? or They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”
“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is...”
“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...”
“We dont have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.”
“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 b...”
“The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.”
“...killing rats wasnt in my job description.”
“A library was nothing without its people. You say library and theres this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that ladythat ico...”
“Theres something deep in the heart of every person that wantsto protect culture. The only thing about my pending career thatwas changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,...”
“I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, co...”
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and those rubber stamps with columns of rotating numbers. "Ms. A...”
“Nik loved the library, but it went beyond the books; he enjoyed the solitude. In the library, nobody expected him to be strong, or brave, or daring. No need for wrestling to prove he was tougher, n...”
“To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do betterto improve on the ideas of others.”
“You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.”
“Lad, I think we've got what we need for this page. Why don't you go have a look around? And keep out of trouble, or that Madam Sidler will scare you silly." Oskar put a hand to the side of his mout...”
