Library Education 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.

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

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

Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has liberally provided a way in which every town may have a collection of books free to all. So successfully has the enactment been carried out that only three per cent of the State’s population is unprovided with a free public library, and this remnant will soon be favored with its public stock of standard books.

I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.