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Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Librarians Libraries

It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Librarians Libraries National Library Week

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as Is this the laundry? How do you spell surreptitious? and, on a regular basis, Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Humor Librarians Libraries

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

~ Joan Bauer

Joan Bauer Librarians Libraries Paraphrased

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

~ Linton Weeks

Linton Weeks Librarians Libraries Washington Post

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

~ S.r. Ranganathan

S.r. Ranganathan Librarians Libraries

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

~ Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen Librarians Libraries

Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.

~ Seth Godin

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Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.“And information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert – you had a long way to walk, but a librarian could take you to the flower. Now it’s more like flowers growing in the Amazon jungle and you’re trying to find a specific flower,” Gaiman said. “Anyone who has spent 5 minutes Googling for information and just sees the amount of noise out there starts to realize that actually someone who knows what they’re doing is incredibly useful. And librarians know what they’re doing.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Librarians Libraries

The Leningrad Public Library remained open throughout the siege and became a place for people to congregate. People came to the library to read, even when weak from cold and exhaustion . . . Some died in their places, with a book propped in front of them . . . In the course of the war, the librarians greatly expanded the collection, purchasing books from the starving, who were desperate to sell anything for food. Some of the city's librarians scoured bombed ruins for volumes, scrabbling over the piles of brick with their backpacks full of salvaged books.

~ M.t. Anderson

M.t. Anderson Librarians Libraries

Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.

~ Donald A. Barclay

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Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

~ Guy Browning

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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.

~ Peter Morville

Peter Morville Information Information Science Librarians Libraries

I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and took up professional whistling, the most engaging obit subjects were librarians. An obituary of a librarian could be about anything under the sun, a woman with a phenomenal memory, who recalled the books her aging patrons read as children—and was also, incidentally, the best sailor on her stretch of the Maine coast—or a man obsessed with maps, who helped automate the Library of Congress's map catalog and paved the way for wonders like Google Maps.

~ Marilyn Johnson

Marilyn Johnson Librarians Libraries Obituaries

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

~ Tatyana Eckstrand

Tatyana Eckstrand Librarians Libraries Quotes

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

~ Robert Arger

Robert Arger Books English English Literature Librarians Libraries Reading School Library Schools

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

~ Karl Kesel

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I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

~ Augusta Scattergood

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