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.

- Marilyn Johnson

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

- Marilyn Johnson

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

- Marilyn Johnson

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

- Marilyn Johnson

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

- Marilyn Johnson

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

- Marilyn Johnson

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…

- Marilyn Johnson

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

- Marilyn Johnson

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 …

- Marilyn Johnson