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My job is never boring," Staples said. "There's nuts-and-bolts stuff like getting the tarpaulin over the shaft when it rains, and so in. Cataloging and reshelving. The shelves are in a shocking state. And when you've got everything ever written or lost to keep track of, it's quite a job. And there's fetching books. "I used to really look forward to requests for books way down in the abyss. We'd all rope up, follow our lines down for miles. The order falls apart a way down but you learn to sniff out class-marks. Sometimes we'd be gone for weeks, fetching volumes.' She spoke with a faraway voice. "There are risks. Hunters, animals, and accidents. Ropes that snap. Sometimes someone gets separated. Twenty years ago, I was in a group looking for a book someone had requested. I remember, it was called 'Oh, All Right Then': Bartleby Returns. We were led by Ptolemy Yes. He was the man taught me. Best librarian there's ever been, some say. "Anyway, after weeks of searching, we ran out of food and had to turn back. No one likes it when we fail, so none of us were feeling great. "We felt that much worse when we realized that we'd lost Ptolemy. "Some people say he went off deliberately. That he couldn't bear not to find the book. That he's out there still in the Wordhoard Abyss, living off shelf-monkeys, looking. And that he'll be back one day, book in his hand. ↗


— China Miéville


#extreme-librarians #un-lun-dun #wordhoard #food

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. ↗


— George Weah


#america #behind #being #books #coming

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. ↗


— Justin Winsor


#becomes #books #collection #goes #good

Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution. ↗


— Tipper Gore


#children #congressional #develop #federally #finding

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗


— Heraclitus


#assistance #greek #i #i am #librarians

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ↗


— Oliver Wendell Holmes


#every #history #library #only #should

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. ↗


— Henri Frederic Amiel


#been #better #better future #everything #future

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗


— Isaac Asimov


#american #american society #being #cut #destroy

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. ↗


— Hugo Ball


#allow #beautiful #begin #burn #everyone

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗


— Rita Dove


#congress #distinct #duties #how #i






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