{"id":5573,"date":"2014-04-21T08:28:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2014-04-24T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:28:54","slug":"libraryquotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/libraryquotes","title":{"rendered":"Librarians celebrate National Library Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Library Week<\/a> was observed April 13-19, 2014 with the theme, “Lives change @ your library\u00ae.<\/p>\n

Emory Librarians celebrated with a party and by collected library-related quotes to share:<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a> \u201cI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.\u201d \u00a0— Jorge Luis Borges \u00a0(writer, and National Librarian of Argentina. (b1899)<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man\u201d \u2015 T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n

\u201cOutside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.\u201d\u00a0 – Groucho Marx\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.\u201d \u2015 Keith Richards<\/p>\n

“A library’s function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapeast way information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.” – Melvil Dewey (1851-1931)<\/p>\n

“A book should be a ball of light in one’s hands.” Ezra Pound<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>\u201cThe 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.’ \u201d \u00a0\u2015 David Eddings, King of the Murgos<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.\u201d \u2015 Linton Weeks<\/p>\n

\u201cA university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.\u201d\u2015 Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any\u2028 good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.\u201d \u00a0— Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I… I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, but I am proud of what I am.[sic]I… am a librarian.\u201d The Mummy (1999)\u2015 Max Allan Collins, The Mummy\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.\u201d \u2015 Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!<\/p>\n

The earliest authenticated library, that of Pharaoh Ramses II, in the second millennium before our era, bore an inscription over the portals designating it as \u201cthe house of the healing for the soul\u201d\u00a0 The Oldest Library Motto: \u03c8\u03b3xh\u03c3 Iatpeion Cora E. Lutz \u00a0The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy<\/i>, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan., 1978), pp. 36-39 \u00a0http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4306897<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>\u201cThe library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.\u201d\u2015 Libba Bray<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.\u201d \u2015 Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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