Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

I was a librarian.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.