To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. - Melvil Dewey
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
- Melvil Dewey
The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on. - Melvil Dewey
The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and rec… - Melvil Dewey
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and rec…
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am incline… - Melvil Dewey
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am incline…
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. - Melvil Dewey
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
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 lib… - Melvil Dewey
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 lib…
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience. - Melvil Dewey
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
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