Patricia Schroeder Quotes

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

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.

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

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.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

I wanted to be a librarian.

Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge.

Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it.

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.

We are drowning in information.

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

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

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.

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

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