Librarians Thu, 07 Dec 2006, 11:24 EST

“So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Mary Kay is one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don’t ever piss one off.”

— Spider Robinson (The Callahan Touch. Ace, 1993, p. 64)

“Most people don’t realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn’t value its librarians doesn’t value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”

— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman. Line spoken by Lucien, Librarian of the Dreaming)

“Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I’ll show you a librarian.”

— Patricia Wilson Berger (Chicago Tribune article, 29 June 1990, Tempo section, p. 1)

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