#librarian

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! ↗

— Charles Ogden

#librarians #libraries #library

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#calling #i #librarian #lost #thinks

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community. ↗

— R. David Lankes

#community #librarians #libraries #change

We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded. ↗

— Herbert S. White

#library-journal #education

I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #art

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. ↗

— Dorothy Gambrell

#librarian #library #metaphor #television #television

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#history #librarians #past #past history #people

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. ↗

— Melvil Dewey

#librarian #militant #must #triumphant

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap. ↗

— David Eddings

#librarians #libraries #library #scholar #scholarship

He checked out his surrounding. More books. A drinking fountain. A poster showing a guy slam-dunking a basketball with one hand and holding a book in the other, urging kids to READ! Weird, thought Steve. How can he even see the hoop? ... You see, Steven, Librarians are the most elite, best trained secret force in the United States of America. Probably in the world." "No way." "Yes way." "What about the FBI?" "Featherweights." "The CIA?" Mackintosh snorted. "Don't make me laugh. Those guys can't even dunk a basketball andd read a book at the same time. ↗

— Mac Barnett

#fbi #funny #librarians #funny