Melvil Dewey Quotes
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.