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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
Matthew Lesko
Country
Our
Neglecting
Way
Libraries
Shame
Throughout
Support
Been
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
Matthew Lesko
Me
Strange
Censorship
Opposing
Libraries
Also
Forefront
Always
Been
Public
Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.
Matthew Stewart
Education
Age
Young
Thomas
Benefit
Books
Libraries
Immigrants
Collecting
Log
Log Cabin
Born
Finest
Cabin
He
New
Reader
New England
Without
Impoverished
Began
Up
Irish
Child
Personal
York
New York
Young Age
Grew
Formal
Formal Education
Upstate
Upstate New York
Avid
England
Who
Eventually
In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy.
Michael Dirda
Truth
Great
Walls
Space
Three
Country
Enough
Those
Libraries
Worthy
Some
Above
Crossed
Only
Splendor
Fireplace
Perhaps
House
Yearn
Lined
English
Display
Pair
Swords
Portrait
Fundamentally
Interrupted
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Buy
Time
Me
Science
Book
School
Parents
Books
Saw
Bookstores
Spent
Kid
Libraries
Recognize
Tables
Cost
Fact
Could
Had
Know
Built
Dollar
Lot
Any
In Fact
Biggest
Cents
Much
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
Nicholas Meyer
Good
People
Society
Books
Libraries
Someone
Only
Civilized
Civilized Society
Like
Schools
Reads
Exist
Them
Use
Twin
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.
Nicholson Baker
Library
Big
Become
Research
Books
Libraries
Remains
Like
Shelves
Task
Same
Form
Which
Full
Electronic
Appeared
Keep
Published
Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.
Nick Cave
Local
Libraries
Vital
Accessible
Children
Communities
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.
Noam Chomsky
Library
Internet
Seen
Easier
Libraries
Development
Greater
Go
Shift
Existence
Undoubtedly
Than
Much
In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as a kid devouring piles of books so I could follow the latest advances in science.
Paul Allen
Library
Director
Science
Father
Books
Latest
Spent
Kid
Libraries
Follow
Could
Lead
Advances
Hours
Hours And Hours
Piles
Helped
Associate
University
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.
Peter Singer
Today
You
World
Internet
Indeed
Those
Easier
Respects
Libraries
Find
Fingertips
Only
Through
Most
Access
Greatest
Dwarf
Information
Available
Your
Connection
Amount
Need
I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.
Phil Klay
Coffee
Else
Libraries
Spin
Someplace
Someplace Else
Parks
Write
Head
Ideas
Dodge
Around
Go
Get
Antsy
Shops
Bike
Then
Letting
Coffee Shops
Museums
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.
Philip Pullman
Book
Ending
Healthy
Benefit
Everyone
Libraries
Distributor
Ecology
Reader
Trade
Up
Author
Should
Including
Publisher
Starting
I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
Rae Carson
Love
School
Reading
Everyone
Our
Kids
Libraries
High
See
High School
Classroom
More
Develop
School Teachers
Message
Middle
Should
Teachers
Teaching
English
Who
Libraries raised me.
Ray Bradbury
Me
Libraries
Raised
Libraries are where it all begins.
Rita Dove
Libraries
Begins
Where
Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.
Rob Manuel
Library
Age
Problem
Walks
Local
Paper
Libraries
Crowd
Through
No-One
Call
Least
Shelves
Yes
Hitting
Door
Public
Younger
Turned
Videogames
Your
Even
Tech
Bring
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
Robert Dallek
Control
Presidential
Rules
Papers
Libraries
Federal
Federal Funding
Over
New
Should
Full
Bring
Funding
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
Robert Darnton
Work
Me
Research
Harvard
Libraries
Taken
Involvement
Ventures
Historical
Electronic
Publishing
University
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
Robert Reich
Benefits
Public Schools
Society
Defined
Visibly
Libraries
Embodied
Mutual
Parks
Hospitals
Recreation
Institutions
Most
Schools
Any
Duties
Public
Transportation
Set
Universities
Museums
Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.
Sam Weller
Travel
Fans
Society
Our
Carnegie
Anchors
Libraries
Visited
Andrew
Some
Slowly
Casually
He
Attend
Road
Knew
Over
League
Major
Major League
Importance
Am
Educated
Decade
Just
Stadiums
Whenever
Loved
Communities
Loyal
Games
Baseball
Last
Last Decade
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.
Sara Paretsky
Time
Women
Men
Seven
Books
Libraries
Stay
Mystery
Writers
Attention
Come
Print
Were
Reviewed
Times
Get
Trying
Often
In Print
Help
I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.
Sara Sheridan
Grateful
Libraries
Support
Institutional
Enjoyed
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
Scott Turow
Library
Safe Place
Free
Important
Back
Dangers
Television
Kids
Libraries
Find
Thousands
Temptations
Haven
More
Only
Study
Countless
Safe
Schools
American
Children
Place
American Kids
Cut
Even
Street
Services
Numbing
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
Sergey Brin
Black
Books
Libraries
Black Hole
Tenacious
Vast
Vast Majority
Except
Written
Disappear
Academic
Most
Majority
Accessible
Quickly
Anyone
Literary
After
Hole
Premier
Researchers
Ever
I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
Stephen McCauley
Home
Me
Sometimes
Coffee
Focus
Long
Gave
Libraries
Out
Write
Forced
Around
Block
Up
Trying
Shops
Public
Helps
Activity
Coffee Shops
Need
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