Quotes About Librarians

Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.

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.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192)

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librarians are the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. Both

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last for only as long as you can take out a book.' -We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y'all helped grow up to be writers

In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom.

some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.

Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. Yeah, here's a rare grocery list, Dan muttered. Wow.

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.

You don't sound like a librarian, she said. I'm on vacation, Jacqueline laughed. Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there? But stereotypes are awfully misleading. there are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. Any more than any other profession.

So you're a secret society … of librarians?

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.