69 Quotes About Librarian

We all know librarians as those quiet people who sit behind the reference desk and give us great advice about life. But there's more to them than meets the eye. Here are a few quotes about librarians you might find inspirational.

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Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories."" You hate the Silent Brothers, " protested Isabelle."I don't hate them, " said Jace candidly." I'm afraid of them. It's not the same thing."" I thought you said they were libarians, " said Clary."They are librarians." Simon whistled. "Those must be some killer late fees. Cassandra Clare
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If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. Beverly Cleary
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control...
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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. Spider Robinson
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Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy. Stephen Colbert
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Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD. Marilyn Johnson
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I was just turned last week. I'm a librarian." He stilled, as if I'd just told him I was the inventor of the tube top. "I watched a movie about a librarian once. Well, she was a librarian by day, a call girl by--" I stopped him with a quick lift of an eyebrow. "If you finish that sentence, we cannot be friends. Molly Harper
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He checked out his surrounding. More books. A drinking fountain. A poster showing a guy slam-dunking a basketball with one hand and holding a book in the other, urging kids to READ! Weird, thought Steve. How can he even see the hoop?.. You see, Steven, Librarians are the most elite, best trained secret force in the United States of America. Probably in the world."" No way."" Yes way."" What about the FBI?""Featherweights.""The CIA?"Mackintosh snorted. "Don't make me laugh. Those guys can't even dunk a basketball andd read a book at the same time. Mac Barnett
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
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Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians. Neil Gaiman
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are...
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Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! Charles Ogden
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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. John Green
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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap. David Eddings
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..a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth. Umberto Eco
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians...
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To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. Rick Riordan
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...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.'' But you have just told me you were sexton here! '' So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb! George MacDonald
A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are...
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A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions. Trudy Wallis
One can never had too many librarian friends.
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One can never had too many librarian friends. Jennifer Chiaverini
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I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother. Lemony Snicket
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The world is full of disappointment, " I said." Yes, " she said, "I heard him say that. And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you believe that?"" No, " I said. "There's more than that."" Like what?"" Like good books, " I said, "and good people. And good librarians, who are almost both at once. Lemony Snicket
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The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power. Brandon Sanderson
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Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors. Peggy A. Borel
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It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress.Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed. Richard Armour
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[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library. To the teachers and librarians and everyone on the frontlines of bringing literature to young people: I know you have days when your work seems humdrum, or unappreciated, or embattled, and I hope on those days you will take a few moments to reflect with pride on the importance of the work you do. For it is indeed of enormous importance--the job of safeguarding and sharing the world's wisdom. All of you are engaged in the vital task of providing the next generation with the tools they will need to save the world. The ability to read and access information isn't just a power--it's a superpower. Which means that you aren't just heroes--you're superheroes. I believe that with all my heart. . Linda Sue Park
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Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me. Ray Bradbury
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...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her. Ettore Scola
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He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marriage to a librarian, this very handsome concession on Mr Fawnhope's part merely added to her despondency. Georgette Heyer
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...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. Greg Cox
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Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature.. books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian. Arthur E. Bostwick
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An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran into the public library. Uniformed police surrounded the building, and the library director was notified that only unobtrusive plainclothesmen were entering the building. Their instructions: “When you find him, overpower him. Quietly.” It was done, and only a few people in the crowded building saw a handcuffed man being ushered past the checkout counter. “See, ” one librarian remarked quietly to an amazed person, “that’s what happens when you don’t pay your book fines. Ray B. Browne
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We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side. Polly Shulman
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Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need Judy Blume
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Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell. Max Barry
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[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here. Kate Messner
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Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy. Marilyn Johnson
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That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner. Patry Francis
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On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother. Cassandra Page
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To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community. R. David Lankes
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Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year. David Davis
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As if on cue, a line of silhouettes emerged from behind a desert scrub–shapes that moved like cats. They wandered through the landscape of corpses, touching each with a gentle nudge. They grew closer, and it became clear that Chuluum was leading the other cats on their sorrowful homage, giving the fallen librarians the honor they deserved. Rahma Krambo
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Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out. David Foster Wallace
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And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild. Kim Stanley Robinson
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My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher. Shawn Stewart Ruff
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Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoarders, after all. Not so different from Librarians. Genevieve Cogman
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Google can bring you back 100, 000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. Neil Gaiman
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I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords, and the door opened before me. I walked in, and the ghost of the Head Librarian, a thin, dusty presence, with dark eyes and a disapproving look, appeared before me, blocking my way. (He had been eaten by a book, then brought back by the other books, apparently because they approved of him. Because even though he didn't have much time for people, he loved books.) . Simon R. Green
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The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior–benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one's own chaos was also brought under control.' Whenever I am troubled, ' said the librarian, 'I think about the Dewey decimal system.'' Then what happens?' asked the junior, rather overawed.' Then I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place. That is what Jung was explaining of course–as the chaos of our unconscious contents strive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness. Jeanette Winterson
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Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made. E. Millicent Sowerby
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The library was a great sprawling complex with rolls and rolls of paper tucked into many shelves. Between the reading rooms were courtyards with living fountains and singing birds and butterflies that would transform into handsome young women to guide or entertain anyone who stayed there any length of time. I saw one among the stacks, explaining an older style of calligraphy to the newly appointed Heavenly Marine Official of the South China Sea. In another wing, a librarian stepped from her chrysalis for the first time, reciting T’ang Dynasty poetry to the flowers. That’s how I knew I was in the right section. Larissa Lai
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It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. The librarian fetched a checked duster, and wiped away the dust, a black, thick, tenacious Victorian dust, a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air acts. A.S. Byatt
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In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely. Unknown
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We find the library world, like the real world, impossible to understand on a rational basis. We turn then to the outer reaches of our mind and treat librarianship with the irrationality that it deserves. While we most often turn to humour merely to enjoy ourselves, we do sometimes do so to make a point. That point is simply that the world of librarianship is ridiculous and that we should all take a far less serious view of our work. What we accomplish as librarians is not, after all, likely to change the world."~ Norman D. Stevens . Peter Gellatly
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A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history, " whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future. Marilyn Johnson
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Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?'' Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they saw one of the books at the library, so now they think the librarians are book fairies. Gina Sheridan
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There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell you, those who do not, and there are some, are in the wrong profession. Mary Virginia Provines
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Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that they must be learned or profound. They are food for the mind and different minds require different foods ; everyone is better for variety. Whatever stimulates the mind feeds it, be it fact, fiction or fable. That is where our responsibility lies ; in knowing what builds good mental blood and brawn, and in dispensing that only. Don't ever let yourself think you haven't time to read. Mary Virginia Provines
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She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale figures sprawled silent and motionless over their reading, the reassuring feel of her book cart as she wheeled it down the aisle, and the books themselves, symbols of order on their backs - young adulthood reduced to "YA, " mystery reduced to a tiny red skull. T.E.D. Klein
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Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.'' The same thing happened in Holland, ' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.'' It helps to ask politely, ' said Mr. Benedict . Trenton Lee Stewart
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For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers. Lavie Tidhar
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This is overdue. Quite a bit, I'm afraid. I apologize. We moved to Topeka when I was very small, and Mother accidentally packed it up with the linens. I have traveled a long way to return it, and I know the fine must be large, but I have no money. As it is a book of fairy tales, I thought payment of a first-born child would be acceptable. I always loved the library. I'm sure she'll be happy there. Ellen Klages
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The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors. Bruce Coville
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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. Terry Pratchett
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Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario. Seth Godin
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Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way. Donald A. Barclay
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Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books. Guy Browning
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Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction. Peter Morville
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I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I’ll never forget my librarian. Unknown
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Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it. Robert Arger
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Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation! Karl Kesel
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I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything. Augusta Scattergood