A colleague sent the following quotes around to our library staff today. Enjoy.
The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but
let's face it - all the books are scattered on the floor. - D.C. Denison,
Boston Globe
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian
can bring you back the right one. - Neil Gaiman, author of Sandman and
Neverwhere
In the non-stop tsunami of global information, librarians
provide us the floaties and teach us how to swim. - Linton Weeks, Washington
Post
Does the internet replace the library? Does a calculator
replace math class? Learning how to use the tool is more important than
having the tool. - Dave Peters
The Internet is marvelous, but to claim, as some now do,
that it's making libraries obsolete is as silly as saying shoes have made feet
unnecessary. - Mark Herring, American Libraries, 2001
1 comment:
These are wonderful. It amazes me that people question the value of libraries.
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