Quotes of: Overdue Keyword

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians,...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity.... There's a subve...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn’t help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books summoned via pneumatic tubes, the archives, ...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information a...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the ...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

That was . . .” I trailed off trying to find the proper adjective. “Long overdue?” “Long overdue? You’re the one who got skittish when I mentioned how I felt and backed away when we almost kissed.” “You call me on all my crap, don’t y...

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Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Sherwood Boehlert

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

Susie Orbach

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Seamus Heaney

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

Elizabeth Vargas

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Phyllis Schlafly

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

L. Neil Smith

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.

P. J. O'Rourke

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

Henry Williamson

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 obi...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Cathy Guisewite