Bookshelves of Lesser Doom
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Posts tagged libraries
Sep 27 '11
Sep 24 '11
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“What they’re doing is making books available to students only if parents or guardians physically come to the school library to check out the books. The books are otherwise being held in a “secure location” within the library, where students cannot access them. These barriers are tantamount to the banning of books and are clearly inconsistent with our democratic freedoms and the free flow of ideas represented by the First Amendment. How do we expect our children to grow up to be inquisitive, educated, participating citizens if we set up such barriers to accessing classic American literature, such as Slaughterhouse Five?”
— Julia Whitehead, executive director of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, on Republic High School’s decision to keep Slaughterhouse Five and Twenty Book Summer in a ‘secure location’ in the library.
(Source: schoollibraryjournal.com)
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Aug 6 '11
Jul 27 '11
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“Computers can only ever give you a keyhole view of the landscape. They only work if you know what information you want. You cannot wander in, as you do with a library, and pick a book at random that catches your eye.”
— Philip Pullman
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
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Jul 26 '11
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“Closing libraries is the behaviour of a debased culture.”
— Philip Pullman
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
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Jul 12 '11
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Bookshop Selexyz Dominicanen converted from an old Dominican church in Maastricht,Netherlands. Designed by Merkz+Girod Architects.
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Jun 23 '11
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“That’s what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.”
— Patrick Ness
(Source: Guardian)
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May 19 '11
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“I came to decide that more can be accomplished with ten experts than with thirty drones.”
— Margaret A. Edwards, in The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts
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May 17 '11
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“The librarian isn’t a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”
— Seth Godin
(Source: sethgodin.typepad.com)
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May 16 '11
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