We SF people love our libraries and librarians.
Carl Satan Wrote:
"The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted
from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers,
drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us
without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the
collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our
civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our
culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we
support our libraries."
Isaac Asimov wrote:
"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not
enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true
architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child
whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to
wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had
the wit to charge through that door and make the most of
it.
"Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being
cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American
society has found one more way to destroy itself. "
And, Spider Robinson wrote:
"Mary Kay is one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever piss one off."
I found these quotes and more ineresting material at:
http://www.visityourlibrary.net/when_speech.html
Dan J. Hicks
"The idea is like grass. It craves light,
likes crowds, thrives on cross-breeding,
grows better for being stepped on."
--Ursula K. Le Guin
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