Information Resources Quotes

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.

A well-run, well-stocked library with access to great books as well as the Internet is essential.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

GLAAD has so much information and outlets about LGBTQ people and some of the issues we face and who we are.