Librarians Quotations

In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

We're absolutely thrilled to be collaborating with the community libraries in this way and hope to continue the program as long as there is a need. Jessica has graduated and left the area, but I am indebted to my new graduate assistant, Sally Quiroz, who has been helping manage the program (and teaching most of the Spanish classes), and the librarians and graduate students in library science who volunteer their time to help teach the classes.

We're here just to let people know that we're working without a contract and that we support hiring certified librarians in the librarian positions, and that we have the support of our association behind us.

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.

Phone books are a librarians secret weapon. I remembered going through an old phone book collection and seeing the ad for the nursing home. I remembered it was the house with the big porch that is now a church.

Because of this great variety of resources, people can be inundated with information, and the librarians help them refine their searches. The new age makes them even more valuable, and it has changed the nature of the job.

Given this and the fact that K12 spending nationally is going up at four times the rate of inflation, we see no need and no benefit from cutting librarians and libraries in order to reach the 65 percent goal.

I think within the library system, we all think the action figure is wonderful. When it came out, all the librarians bought one and have it here on their desks. It's a nice, tongue-in-cheek piece for librarians.

I think libraries are an important part of the community. If it wasn't for librarians recommending our books to people coming into the library unsure of what to read, where would authors be? I really applaud this community for being so serious about giving to their libraries.

We figure the librarians are going to know better than we do whatever they need to do with it.

We have some really small schools that are so small that they can't even afford counselors, librarians and nurses. In order to do that, because of the fact that the Legislature is not giving us anymore money, we have to cut somewhere and what we are proposing to cut is part of the funding for the Project Grad program.

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

This is the outcome we were hoping for. We have maintained that it was important to us that we had certified librarians throughout the bargaining process, and we are happy to see that the district and the board have done the right thing.

It's an ongoing process. Librarians look at what's popular and where there are gaps in the collections.

I'm not aware of any previous government attempt to retrieve such material. Librarians and historians are having a fit, and I can't imagine a bigger chill to journalists.

Children 10 and under are invited to dress as a story book character to win a cash prize. This year we have four local school librarians to be the judges. I am anxious to see what the big character will be this year.

The trouble is discernment. How do you know what's reliable and real and what's not? And who can help teach you that? That's one of the roles librarians have faced and embraced. Before, it was discernment about books in collections. Now, it's online databases and resources.

All of our royalties from the sale of the book go to NCAC. Every dollar helps them fight censorship and helps the teachers and students and librarians who are under fire.

All of our royalties from the sale of the book go to NCAC, ... Every dollar helps them fight censorship and helps the teachers and students and librarians who are under fire.