Librarians Appreciation Quotes

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.

Never apologize for intellectual curiosity or the appreciation of fine art, Miss Greene.

As always, huge thanks to booksellers and librarians and educators! Now more than ever your determination to keep books like mine available for customers, patrons, and students like yours is so appreciated. Thank you for fighting that fight.

His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but by small graceful actions, repeated often and refined with time.

Never before had Corwin fully appreciated the magic of a library, and the magicians who wielded it's power – librarians.

I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.

...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always time to appreciate a good book.

I was never an avid reader, never a bookworm. I preferred magazines and movies! Didn't make time for books outside of the classroom. In my 20s and 30s, I read a couple books a year, usually at the recommendation of a gf or a colleague. After my mom passed away in 2015, I took up reading like it was my job...part grief mechanism and part celebration of and appreciation for my mom. She was an avid reader her entire life. A retired 2nd grade school teacher, she once told me that she would have loved being a librarian.

OSKAR N. RETEEP, ESQ. APPRECIATOR OF THE STRANGE, THE NEAT, AND/OR THE YUMMY CHIEF LIBRARIAN, HISTORIAN, AND BOOK SMELLER OF THE GREAT LIBRARY

You think you’ll make it in the world, working as a deputy in a Podunk county? You don’t appreciate how cruel and unforgiving the world is.” Uncle Truman and Aunt Louise took Thomas in as always. Truman was Mom’s brother, and he’d worked as a prison guard in Auburn, New York, though the man’s sleepy eyes and easy going demeanor made him a better fit for a librarian job. “Don’t take it to heart,” Uncle Truman had told him, sitting beside Thomas on the twin mattress as Aunt Louise carried an armful of sheets and blankets from the house. “They love you.” “They have a funny way of showing it.” Truman sighed and patted Thomas’s knee as though he was still in grade school. “Your father

There is a terrible truth that few Librarians will speak. Most of the books here are worthless. Ninety-nine percent of them could be given to the fire, with no appreciable loss to humanity. But we don’t know which ones. We have to keep all of them. It’s the only way to be sure. If some single book among the millions contains the knowledge that will save humanity, it will be here when it is needed.