Archivist Quotes

“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers. I hope you keep her digging into all the old boxes as long as there is ONE left.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are.

They’re sorting it all out for us.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too.”
― Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

“Archive as if the future depends on it.”
― Lisbet Tellefsen, archivist

“The great librarians have all been religious men--monks, priests, rabbis-- and the stewardship of books is an act of homage and faith.”
― Martha Cooley, The Archivist