Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!.

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, ci….

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories..

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-rangi….

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read an….

In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and ….

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy..

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone..

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them..

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to ….

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: ….

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste..

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and thems….