Librarian Quotes
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The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup".
Peter Ackroyd— Chatterton (London: Abacus, [1987] 1991), ch. 5, p. 72.
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.
Germaine Greer— Susan Ryan as quoted in Brilliant Careers - "Germaine Greer" profile by Laura Miller at Salon (22 June 1999)
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
A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.
judith krug— "Libraries vs. Police in a Suit Sparked by Porn; Kent Case Centers on People's Rights and Protections" by Jeffrey M. Barker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (August 13, 2002)
The work of the information officer [should be] regarded as the natural dynamic extension of that of the librarian.
— Palmer and Foskett (1958, p.1495) as cited in: Alistair Black et al. (2012) The Early Information Society: Information Management in Britain Before the Computer. p. 41
Information management is a term which is being used increasingly to express the changing nature of library and information work. Based conceptually in information science it represents a convergence of the role claimed for the information scientist with that of the librarian who is rapidly embracing new techniques in order to cope with the information explosion.
— Mel Collier (1986) Microcomputer software for information management: case studies. p. 1
