This document contains 12 quotes from various authors praising libraries and librarians. It highlights how librarians help people learn to navigate vast amounts of information, can find the right answers to questions, are knowledgeable teachers without classrooms, and keep the doors to learning always open through libraries. Some quotes note that librarians are underestimated masters of information who should not be angered.
This is a collection of quotes of why libraries are great community and national resources and what we can do to help those who don't have access to them.
A presentation based on the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) policy briefing, "Libraries connecting people and communities", http://www.lovescottishlibraries.org.
'Shelving together: collaborative working throughout different library environments' - Rebecca Dorsett, of the Royal United Hospital in Bath, talked to the CDG National Conference in Birmingham on 18 July 2012 about how collaborative working across library sectors can lead to new and innovative ideas and projects.
Library Futures & the Importance of Understanding Communities of UsersChristine Madsen
In 2010 I finished a two year ethnographic study of that aimed at understanding how the digitization of rare texts is changing scholars’ work and in turn how it is changing their relationship with the library. I will present some highlights from the findings of that research and discuss more recent research to understand the future of libraries by understanding communities of users. In other words, what can we learn from Tibetan Buddhists, the Parakuyo Maasai, and the CTOs of our top technology companies about how to build the library of the future?
This presentation was the 2013 Breslauer Lecture at UCLA GSEIS.
This is a collection of quotes of why libraries are great community and national resources and what we can do to help those who don't have access to them.
A presentation based on the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) policy briefing, "Libraries connecting people and communities", http://www.lovescottishlibraries.org.
'Shelving together: collaborative working throughout different library environments' - Rebecca Dorsett, of the Royal United Hospital in Bath, talked to the CDG National Conference in Birmingham on 18 July 2012 about how collaborative working across library sectors can lead to new and innovative ideas and projects.
Library Futures & the Importance of Understanding Communities of UsersChristine Madsen
In 2010 I finished a two year ethnographic study of that aimed at understanding how the digitization of rare texts is changing scholars’ work and in turn how it is changing their relationship with the library. I will present some highlights from the findings of that research and discuss more recent research to understand the future of libraries by understanding communities of users. In other words, what can we learn from Tibetan Buddhists, the Parakuyo Maasai, and the CTOs of our top technology companies about how to build the library of the future?
This presentation was the 2013 Breslauer Lecture at UCLA GSEIS.
PowerPoint for a junior high Career Day at which I presented. There are several slides dispelling stereotypes about librarians, followed by a few slides on what librarians are and where we work. Lastly, I spoke about my job as the Assistant Director of the Mountain West Digital Library and why Google is not enough (namely, because of metadata).
'Early Literacy in Action: Print Motivation' A Workshop presented by the Children's Department of the Abilene Public Library in Abilene, Texas on February 12, 2015. This presentation details the early literacy skill Print Motivation and how to incorporate it into library programs.
“When in doubt, go to the library” -Lynn ClarkIriss
North Lanarkshire librarian Lynn Clark speak about the importance of libraries at North Lanarkshire Council's event Self Directed Support: The Bigger Picture on 8th November 2011.
PowerPoint for a junior high Career Day at which I presented. There are several slides dispelling stereotypes about librarians, followed by a few slides on what librarians are and where we work. Lastly, I spoke about my job as the Assistant Director of the Mountain West Digital Library and why Google is not enough (namely, because of metadata).
'Early Literacy in Action: Print Motivation' A Workshop presented by the Children's Department of the Abilene Public Library in Abilene, Texas on February 12, 2015. This presentation details the early literacy skill Print Motivation and how to incorporate it into library programs.
“When in doubt, go to the library” -Lynn ClarkIriss
North Lanarkshire librarian Lynn Clark speak about the importance of libraries at North Lanarkshire Council's event Self Directed Support: The Bigger Picture on 8th November 2011.
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2. • In the nonstop tsunami of global
information, librarians provide us with
floaties and teach us to swim.
• –Linton Weeks
3. • Librarians are almost always very helpful and
often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their
skills are probably very underestimated and
largely underemployed.
• –Charles Medawar
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4. • Libraries allow children to ask questions
about the world and find the answers. And
the wonderful thing is that once a child
learns to use a library, the doors to learning
are always open.
• –Laura Bush
5. • Google can bring you back 100,000 answers,
a librarian can bring you back the right one.
• –Neil Gaiman
6. • Librarians have always been among the most
thoughtful and helpful people. They are
teachers without a classroom.
• –Willard Scott
7. • My two favourite things in life are libraries
and bicycles. They both move people forward
without wasting anything.
• –Peter Golkin
8. • Librarians are the secret masters of the
world. They control information. Don’t ever
piss one off.
• –Spider Robinson
9. • A library is a place where you learn what
teachers were afraid to teach you.
• –Alan M. Dershowitz
10. • Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station
attendant of the mind.
• –Richard Powers
11. • A good library will never be too neat, or too
dusty, because somebody will always be in it,
taking books off the shelves and staying up
late reading them.
• –Lemony Snicket