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“Every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.”
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Every book its reader.”
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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
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.”
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“It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar.”
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“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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Villains of Martin
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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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