#librarian

Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing I've been fleeing all my life. and (here it comes): a librarian is just not that easy to become...Apparently there's a whole filing system and annotating system and stamping system and God knows what you have to learn before you qualify. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#life

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! ↗

— Charles Ogden

#librarians #libraries #library

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#got #her #i #librarian #me

We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded. ↗

— Herbert S. White

#library-journal #education

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart. ↗

— David Davis

#christmas #jobs #librarian #library #money

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. ↗

— Richard Powers

#service

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#history #librarians #past #past history #people

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

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #correcting #course #expected #i

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #because #borrow #buy #community