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“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.”
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“People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
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“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
― Dusty And Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys
― Dusty And Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys
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A book club dedicated to dispelling the myth that all people from small Midwestern burgs are illiterate.
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