us public libraries in pictures

Wendy SimmonsInformation Resource OfficerU.S. Embassy – Bangkok, Thailand

I can not live without books. ~ Thomas Jefferson

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of

letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

~Andrew Carnegie

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. ~ Bill Gates

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their

lives forever, for the better. ~ Barack Obama

Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.~ Unknown

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The

only entrance requirement is interest. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too

dark to read." ~ Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began." ~ Rita Mae Brown