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Stuttgart Public Library by Jwltr Freiburg on Flickr ―The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.‖ Paula Poundstone

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Page 1: Happy National Library Week: Library Quotes

Stuttgart Public Library by Jwltr Freiburg on Flickr

―The truth is libraries are raucous

clubhouses for free

speech, controversy and

community.‖

–Paula Poundstone

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

― Jorge Luis Borges

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―Without libraries what have we?

We have no past and no future.‖

–Ray Bradbury

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―The medicine chest of the soul.‖— Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.

"Library of Parliament Reading Room" by Alejandro Erickson

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―In the nonstop tsunami of global information,

librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.‖

–Linton Weeks

"Stockholm Public Library" by Samantha Marx on Flickr

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―With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political

climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one

– but no one at all – can tell you what to read and when and how.‖

–Doris Lessing

"Library Of Congress Great Hall-TBP" by Tony Brooks on Flickr

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"Biblioteca José Vasconcelos / Vasconcelos Library" by * CliNKer * on Flickr

―A library is a house of hope. It's a place where we all, whatever our situation, can feed our ideas and develop our dreams.‖

– Doug Wilhelm

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"Ann Arbor Library - Pittsfield Branch" by Jim Howe on Flickr

―Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.‖

—Neil Gaiman

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―To read is to empower

To empower is to write

To write is to influence

To influence is to change

To change is to live.‖– Jane Evershed

"Stacks in the NYC Public Library" by Tammy Friesen from Flickr

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―You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges

are not going to do any good unless you are

raised and live in a library everyday of your life. ‖—Ray Bradbury

"Books at library" by Håkan Dahlström on Flickr

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―Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best

friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.‖— Groucho Marx

"A world of books” Picton Reading Room, Liverpool Central Library. by Beverley Goodwin in Flickr

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"Nova Scotia Legislative Library, Province House, Halifax" by Charles Hoffman from Flickr

―My guess is it’ll be about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.‖

– Craig Silverstein. Director of Technology, Google.

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"Klementium Library" by Chris Bartle on Flickr

―My Alma mater was books, a good

library... I could spend the rest of my life

reading, just satisfying my curiosity.‖

—Malcolm X

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―The library is the temple of learning,

and learning has liberated more people

than all the wars in history.‖– Carl Rowan

"The British Library" by Steve Cadman on Flickr

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―The closest thing we will ever come to

an orderly universe is a good library.‖

—Ashleigh Brilliant

"Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library" by Lauren Manning on Flickr

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"Dartmouth Library" by Ben Stephenson on Flickr

―There is more treasure in

books than in all the pirate's

loot on Treasure Island.‖– Walt Disney

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―Information is the currency of democracy.‖— Thomas Jefferson

"The JB Priestley Library" by Neil Turner

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―When the going gets

tough, the tough get a

librarian.‖

–Joan Bauer

"New York City, New York Public Library NYPL, Stephen A. SchwarzmanBuilding, 1897-1911 : " Rose Main reading Room "" by (vincent desjardins) from Flickr

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―Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most

dangerous and powerful of all weapons.‖― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

"Liverpool Central library" by Beverley Goodwin on Flickr

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"Library of Congress Reading Room Dome" by Tony Brooks on Flickr

―I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more

people need to start spending as much time in

the library as they do on the basketball court.‖― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Celebrate

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National Library WeekApril 13-19, 2014

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Libraries

50 years

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Our inaugural Henry & Rhoda Sandler

Memorial Audiovisual Prize