us public libraries in pictures
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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