January 2012
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“You may have in a house costly pictures and costly ornaments, and a great...”
– John Bright, as cited in The Book-Lover: a guide to the best reading (via bookoasis)
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“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm...”
– Germaine Greer (via cadicat)
“I realize that long hours of reading are not for everyone but I have never...”
– Victor P. Hass, Leaves from a Bookman’s Notebook (via anwarsdreams)
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“A library is thought in cold storage.”
– Herbert Samuel (via uflibrary) (via bibliophibious)
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The Myth of the Bookless Library →
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WatchIs a picture worth a 1000 words - TED lecture
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“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if...”
– From “Don Juan” by Lord Byron (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“Libraries gave us power”
– Manic Street Preacher lyric used in Welsh library
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“You might not know that Charles Dickens was not only a distinguished author but...”
– Students - What the Dickens?
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“I get frustrated that there are 793 million illiterate people, when the solution...”
– John Wood -‘His Libraries, 12,000 So Far, Change Lives’ - NYTimes.com
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