“Inevitably, not everyone will agree that libraries are valuable. Some people think that libraries are obsolete. Some people also think the world is flat. Do not let them derail your mission. We are doing righteous work. Keep preaching the gospel. Libraries are critical community resources. Libraries need adequate funding.”
James G. Van Bramer, Public Libraries, Tightrope Walk, July/August 2009
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I Love my Library
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(Thanks Tony!)
We are at your service President Obama
“Libraries are central to community development, civic engagement, and scholarly excellence. Therefore, the librarians of this nation are asking not what you can do for libraries but what libraries can do for you, to help you solve the daunting problems we all face. We’re at your service.”
From the Editor. Dear President Obama by Leonard Kniffel, American Libraries, January/February 2009, page 4
“It’s not what you know, it’s how fast you can access all the things you don’t know. And if you get that time down to a few seconds, then you effectively know everything.”
Thomas Stewart, The Wealth of Knowledge
Books and the Emerging Culture
“I know one bookman, who once had at least the semblance of a library, who informed me recently that he already had sixteen hundred songs on his iPod. He didn’t mention having bought any books along the way.
It’s hard to buck an emerging culture, but pluralism is still possible - one need not really abandon the rich book culture that was there before.”
Larry McMurtry, Books, page 208
A V.P. who is into censorship?
“Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving “full support” to the mayor.”
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html
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