American Library Association Quotes

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“Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim.”
― James LaRue
tags: american-library-association, censorship, intellectual-freedom, libraries, silence
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Susan Orlean
“At the time, the library's fire prevention consisted of smoke detectors and handheld fire extinguishers. There were no sprinklers. The American Library Association, known informally as the ALA, always advised against sprinklers, because water damage was even worse for books than fire damage.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book
tags: american-library-association, books, fire, fire-extinguishers, fire-prevention, library, smoke-detectors, sprinklers, time, water
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