Reference Services Quotes

I am a public library

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

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

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

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

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

I was a librarian.

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

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer-our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy.

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

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

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

I was a librarian in a city school.

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

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

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.

I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

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.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

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