Quotes That Inspire

“ my library is….” quotes that inspire Touching hearts and minds in our community “ My library is… ” quotes from banners kept at BPL locations before, and during, Ontario Public Library Week 2008: an initiative of the Planning Team, Staff Development Day 2008

Aldershot : “One Of Life’s Pleasures”

An essential part of our neighbourhood

A place I go to learn

A lifesaver!!

Sanctuary

Community

Friendly, helpful staff. Both my husband and myself are grateful to the staff.

I love your audio books

Great staff

Great meeting place!

Cool

A place to have fun!

Inspiring place

The best library

Full of resources

Great staff—so friendly and helpful

My idea of one of life’s pleasures is having a library within walking distance!

Awesome

So helpful

A source of escape to another place

CELEBRATING BRANT HILLS

Happy birthday, Brant Hills ! I love books

This library rocks out loud

I love books!! I love this library!!

We love books before bed and we love June!

Best place on Earth!

I like my library

Awesome!!

Thank you for a great party!

I think the library is awesome. Thanks for having so many great books

This library has an awesome staff!!

Brant Hills is great! Staff is awesome!

Brant Hills is awesome—best library in the world

I like the books

I love my library!!

I like the crafts!!

Friendly!

Fantastic!

This is fun—I love books

Like my home!! I love it here!!

Welcoming!

Super job

This library is amazing, and the staff here is totally awesome!

My library is a great place for me and my friends to hang out!

Amazing

Brant Hill celebrated its 40 th birthday October 2008

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This is our second home! Best place to bring and treat the children!

So many schools of thought.

An amazing place!

A great place to hide and find peace

I like the books here. The library is awesome . It helps me because I am in ESL!!

Credit to staff and a credit to Burlington

Terrific service, friendly people ! Thanks!!

Necessary! Enjoyable

All libraries are fabulous —this library especially!

Great place to work, great staff and lovely customers.

A wonderful resource

We can read new and different books without having to buy them—a great privilege.

Awesome! Cool! Great!

A fun place to bring kids!

Great resource place, great staff

Family time

FIND IT AT CENTRAL

A great place to be

I love Burlington

Great place to go anytime and friendly, helpful staff

Affordable entertainment . Great staff!

The library is awesome

Very quiet

Hours of contented retirement!!

Library is a sanctuary from the cares of life. A place to meditate and relax as you read.

I love this library!

Reading is fun

The staff is great

It’s very good!

“ Yo opino que la biblioteca es un lugar donde cada persona encuentra los recursos necesarios para aprender; por ejemplo el idioma espanol.” (Spanish)

I think that the library is a place where each person finds the resources necessary to learn; for example the Spanish language.

“ E muito bom!” (Portuguese)

“ Un buen lugar para estar con mi novia .” (Spanish)

A good place to be with my fiancée.

Bargain!

Opportunity for all ages and price ranges!!

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My best place to be and great service

I love your books

Love the library

You should love this place

To enjoy different types of books!

Place to get my French books

Books rock!

To broaden my horizons and explore new adventures

To use different books for all ages

The library rocks because I can do my homework here

Where my boys can explore a new world/adventure

The staff is great

It always has the books I’m looking for and always has available computers.

Very nice place

Great place to unwind—peaceful , content

Is a place to get away from my wife

A home away from home with more books!!

Good looking people

A place of comfort and quiet

This library rox the sox off the rest !

Wonderful place to visit and load up on reading material

A home away from home, where anything can happen

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One of my many blessings. Bless you all. Keep smiling.

Independence, freedom, wisdom—a way out!

Outstanding and beautiful place! Great place to study!! My fav library.

It is a quiet and relaxing escape from all the stress and chaos of the outside world!

A nice quiet place to read

Social, educational, recreational and my Internet connections! Thanks!!! Great staff!

Love the new and improved look!

A quiet place to work and learn

The staff is great

Learning and reading about stuff you want

The world at your fingertips!

Makes my property taxes worthwhile

The library gives me free Internet when I need it most.

I feel at home. Love to study here.

This library helped me pass school! Thanks!

Friendly, knowledgeable staff creating a comfortable learning environment.

Free computer use, free books, free movies, free magazines, free newspapers and great staff —what more could you want?

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My education and my entertainment!

I practically live here!

I get all my projects done here!

Knowledge at your fingertips and staff willing to work with people. Thanks for doing a great job.

The library is a nice place for people to read

A place where I can concentrate with few distractions

Quality time with my kids

A great service

The staff helps a lot

We depend on it!

It has good books. Plus the staff, they rock

Indie graphic novels left and right

Exploring new worlds

Vital!

I like the great books

Convenient

Good place to study

A candle in the darkness

A daily destination when my kids were young

My favourite place—relaxation, comfort, free books. A treasure for avid readers. An essential and wonderful public service.

One of the most important investments of tax dollars in our community. I love it!

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Awesome for checking e-mail for jobs.

Internet access for those on fixed incomes.

Thanks for the great info.

Journeys to other worlds!!!

Serenity! Thank you!

Awesome. I like it when they help you.

Nice job everyone!

A happy place to meet the world

This is the best library in town

Organized

Lots of great movies and music! Oh yeah, books, too!!

This is a great place to find everything.

Great library. Couldn’t do without it ! Love it!

Best library in Halton. Competent, caring community and clean.

Love it. It rocks. Everyone is soooo kind and willing to help! Thanks so much!

Really rad books and groovy CDs! I love the library!

The greatest!

A chance to have the future I want!

Internet is awesome. You get great access.

Better than MSN.

I can’t live without books.

Amazing staff. Very helpful.

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Best in the world

I like it because it has good books and services

Best place in town! Excellent place to study

Opportunity!

Thank you for having the first lesbian books I ever read.

I just enjoy coming here, it makes me feel good.

Thanks to Central and other Burlington libraries—they make my life more pleasurable!

At the library, I get to go on the computer!

I love it because it’s quiet!

So beautiful and comfortable!

A quiet place to study when I need it. Thanks!

BPL = B est P lace L ove it!

It is a treasure trove!

Shared knowledge

A quiet place because all the noise, adventure and excitement is going on in everyone’s minds. Magical!

My peace and quiet place to learn and grow

Amazing library!

Knowledge at your fingertips and staff willing to work with people. Thanks for doing a great job.

Fun at Central Children’s

Awesome! Lovely, helpful staff

A nice place to work, with friendly colleagues, respectful students and happy, gurgling babies.

A great place to find great books and information

Fun on the computers

Like Google in a building—and better !!

I love to read and watch movies. I like to read lots of books and I love the computers so we can play or do work! It is sometimes quiet but you can really do your homework here!

I like the DVDs

I like to read at the library !.

Reading helps you read so you get better at it. I love the service that you do and how fast you pick the book we need! Thanks for the help!

I like the library because I can come get magazines, books, DVDs for no cost and meet nice people and come to many events .

I like reading because it helps you learn how!

A place for books and reading

Library means quiet and reading

Reading is the bomb!

Awesome books!!

KILBRIDE : “Perfection in a small package”

Friendly staff that know us

Sandra and her school staff are the best thing to happen to the Burlington Library System.There is nothing better than personalized service!!!!

Perfect place, perfect staff. Perfection in a small package!

Best place to come for friendship and lots of reading material.

Friendly staff. Terrific collection of new titles - just a pleasant environment

I like the library because everyone is really nice and knows who you are and there are a lot of good books to read. It’s also nice that it’s so conveniently located so we don’t have to go all the way to Burlington. Kilbride rocks!

It’s a great place to learn!!

The library is my primary source of culture

The Kilbride library is the centre of the community culture . Knowledge with warmth and guidance . People of the same area come together here for entertainment and to meet. Families grow here knowing that the library offers the world, the country and the spirit of Canada . This is where it starts—a good library with a good staff in small town Canada! The cities could learn from this.

Great personalized service from caring staff!

Something new to read, watch, listen to

New Appleby : “ Heart Of My Community”

I love getting books

The library is a place to get fun books to read

Reading is really fun! I love it!

Awesome

My favourite place

A fun and happy place!!

Always special!!

A lovely place!!

A special and a great place to be. It rocks!!!!

Great but we need a library cat

Affordable

I love books

Wonderful

Peaceful

A place I can go where the hours drift away unheeded

Brilliant

My library is great

A great place to get info on everything we experience in life

Phenomenal!

My second home

Where I spend time with my daughter exploring through books

Is the heart of my community

A special place where someone is always helpful. A place that encourages you to learn. A special place indeed.

J’adore ma bibliothèque!

A place to browse and enjoy

New Appleby : “Heart Of My Community”

My window to a plethora of topics

Amazing! I have learned a lot about everything.

The place for mystery

A place with amazing books. I love it!

Good to come back to!

The library is my home away from home

I have enjoyed 80 years of wonderful library books - Keep up the good work!

A place where I can get my favourite books

Filled with wonderful people and books!

Our children love to visit the library! Such a great place for children and adults!

Special to me because it helped me become a better reader

Awesome because it’s nice and quiet

The world in a room

Tansley Woods : “ Splendiferous!”

Organized

The best place ever!

Awesome!

My place

Great!

My home away from home

My peaceful place

I love the library. It rocks and lots of books to choose from. Thank you!

I like that they know my name

My sanctuary

Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card

Pretty chill

Tranquil

Fantastic

It is super!

The best in the world!

A big, happy family!

A place to relax and read

The reason I wake up in the morning

Splendiferous!

Comfortable and welcoming …very interesting!

A valuable community resource !!

The library rox

Tansley Woods : “Splendiferous!”

Knowledge and information

Reading is great!!!

Cozy

Fun and great to be around

You get smarter by reading

My second life

Resourceful!

My future

My Dewey Decimal System

Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card

Organized knowledge!! Fantabulous!

A place where I can relax and be free

A place that I can be perfect

The fountain of life

Splendiferous!

The best place ever!

My peaceful place

I love the library . It rocks and lots of books to choose from. Thank you!

“ my library is….” quotes that inspire

“ Just read through ..really incredible”

Wendy Schick City Librarian Burlington Public Library These quotes are taken from banners that served as inspirational wallpaper at the BPL Staff Development Day Conference2008 and reflect the BPL brand promise of being In Touch