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“Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.”
― Less Than Angels
― Less Than Angels
“God bless the Reference Librarians”
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“I long ago became convinced that the most reliable source for arcane and obscure and seemingly unobtainable information does not lie with the government or law enforcement agencies. Apparently neither the CIA nor the military intelligence apparatus inside the Pentagon had even a slight inkling of the Soviet Union's impending collapse, right up to the moment the Kremlin's leaders were trying to cut deals for their memoirs with New York publishers. Or, if a person really wishes a lesson in the subjective nature of official information, he can always call the IRS and ask for help with his tax forms, then call back a half hour later and ask the same questions to a different representative. So where do you go to find a researcher who is intelligent, imaginative, skilled in the use of computers, devoted to discovering the truth, and knowledgeable about science, technology, history, and literature, and who usually works for dirt and gets credit for nothing? After lunch I drove to the city library on Main and asked the reference librarian to find what she could on Junior Crudup.”
― Last Car to Elysian Fields
― Last Car to Elysian Fields
“I also work here because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to anything else. As a breed, we're the ultimate generalists. I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live.”
― The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
― The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
“Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!”
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