A few words
regarding Libraries...
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The three
most important documents a free society
gives are a birth certificate, a passport,
and a library card. ~E.
L. Doctorow, New York Times, March 27, 1994
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More than a building that
houses books and data, the library has
always been a window to a larger world–a
place where we’ve always come to discover
big ideas and profound concepts that help
move the American story forward. . . . .
Libraries remind us that truth isn’t about
who yells the loudest, but who has the right
information. Because even as we’re the most
religious of people, America’s innovative
genius has always been preserved because we
also have a deep faith in facts. And so the
moment we persuade a child, any child, to
cross that threshold into a library, we’ve
changed their lives forever, and for the
better. This is an enormous force for good.
-President-elect Barack Obama in
a speech at the American Library Association
annual conference in June 2005
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Libraries
will get you through times of no money
better than money will get you through times
of no libraries.~ Anne
Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog
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A library
outranks any other one thing a community can
do to benefit its people. It is a never
failing spring in the desert.
~Andrew
Carnegie
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The public
library is the only public agency which
serves the minds of ALL of the population,
one individual at a time.
~Unknown
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We are the
only planet, so far as we know, to have
invented a communal memory stored neither in
our genes or our brains. The warehouse of
that memory is called a library.
~Carl Sagan
