We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
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Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
quote by Nicholas Meyer
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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
quote by Caroline Kennedy
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Quitting smoking aint nothing
Antennas, cables, dishes, and remotes,
Seinfeld, bachleors, Oprah, and some soaps
The world on the tube is a queasy half life
Peoples addiction is such a sad sight
Give me fresh air, long walks, and sunsets anyday
I'll take bookstores, libraries, and Papa Hemmingway
The golf course, the novel, the woodland trail all whisper
'Come be with me, not the one-eyed monster! ''
So please take these verses in the spirit they are given
Turn that nasty set off and go start livin'.
poem by Jimmy Wrangler
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
quote by Ray Bradbury
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Libraries are not made, they grow.
quote by Augustine Birrell
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
quote by Barbara Kingsolver
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America, why are your libraries full of tears?
quote by Allen Ginsberg
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
quote by Ada Louise Huxtable
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I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
quote by Matthew Lesko
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
quote by Barbara Tuchman
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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
quote by Matthew Lesko
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
quote by David Strathairn
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
quote by Bjarne Stroustrup
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
quote by Saul Bellow
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The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
quote by Peter S. Jennison
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The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
quote by Art Modell
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In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.
quote by Miguel de Icaza
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
quote by Heraclitus
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