Quotes of: Public-library Keyword

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, ...

Katherine Paterson

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

David Mamet

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Stuart Dybek

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Andrew Wiles

It is fascinating that Baghdad had more than 100 public libraries in the year 891, Cordoba had 70 public libraries at the end of 10th century, while the royal library of Caliph al-‘Aziz, in the year 988, of the Fatimids in Cairo perhaps had more th...

Islamic Librarianship and Malaysian Islamic Libraries

Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

Neil Armstrong

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was f...

John Lewis

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, publ...

Robert Reich

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet, but they aren't anymore because you let all the assholes i...

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

I refuse to use the computers if Google is on them.' Librarian: 'Okay.' '--' Librarian: '--' '--' Librarian: 'Enjoy your day!

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.

Keith Richards

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left beh...

George Weah

Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?' 'Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they saw one of the books at the library, so now they think the librarians ...

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that we look them in the eye and take them seriously. Our work demands that we become dreamers, holding onto hope th...

The Public Library: A Photographic Essay

All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty years.

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or in its management. To the great mass of the people it comes as their first and only educational opportunity.

A Library Primer

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our l...

Homeland

Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.

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