How the World Sees Us
A collection of quotations from the media about libraries, librarians, and librarianship. Upload a quotation.
Heaven bless the long-suffering school librarians: the library was the one place I enjoyed in school…. It’s a shame that the football team got a bigger budget than the Library.
James Stephenson in “Seen Not Heard: How Obscure Security Makes Schools Suck,” Boing Boing, Mar. 11, 2010.
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Measuring teacher performance based in part on the test scores of their pupils would seem to be a no-brainer.
—Evan Thomas and Pat Wingert writing on education reform, “Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers,” Newsweek, March 15.
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Millennials are the first truly digital generation. Three quarters have created a profile on Facebook or some other social-networking site. Only half of Gen Xers and 30% of boomers have done so.
—Robert J. Samuelson, “The Real Generation Gap,” Newsweek, March 15.
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“Oh no, we would never get it back!”
—Humorist Paula Poundstone, quoting a California librarian when she asked if she could check out a book on the history of curse words, National Public Radio’s <i style=>Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, </i>March 6.</p>
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His goal was to make it not seem as competitive.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences librarian Lucia Schultz, explaining to the Associated Press why Oscar show producer Allan Carr told presenters not to use the expression “and the winner is,” March 8, 2010.
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Librarians are my favorite people, and libraries are my favorite place to be.
Agatha Award–winning mystery novelist KATHERINE HALL PAGE on why she dedicated The Body in the Sleigh to librarians. “Author’s note,” The Body and the Sleigh.
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That these books are available for children—for a child like me—all these books!—leaves me dazed, dazzled.
—Novelist Joyce Carol Oates, remembering a childhood visit to the Lockport Public Library in upstate New York, Smithsonian, Mar. 2010
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“Things I Miss About Chicago” entry for Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library center, by expatriate Drew Adamek, Beachwood Reporter blog, Feb. 22
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