#libra

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#library #longing #books

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#library #university #universe

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. ↗

— John Lubbock

#reading #travel #library

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #magnus-bane-tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #library

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#lady-gaga #librarians #lifestyle

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#community #enrich #libraries #community

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#community #democratic #entrance #interest #library

It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #community

In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000. ↗

— Will Manley

#mathematics

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#library #art