"To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few."
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"It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't."
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"I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library."
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"The librarians know the secrets, not the historians"
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"You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it."
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"Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length."
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"One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'."
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"On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached."
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"President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'"
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"First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library."
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"I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can bet that I'll steal away with a book or two."
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"Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural."
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"What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste."
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"A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love."
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"Shut not your doors to me proud libraries."
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"Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library."
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"Libraries can take the place of God."
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"Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."
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"Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book."
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"You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all."
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