[Publib] Friday

[Gareth Osler]

More quotes :)

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Gareth Osler
Admin. and editor
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On 01/02/2008, King, Jamie <Jamie.King at flr.follett.com> wrote:
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> I just came across an interesting book of quotes and anecdotes about books
> and reading.  Two perspectives on libraries for you to ponder:
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> Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order,
> calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light
> nor dark.  The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and
> long-lasting.  In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious,
> still and absorbed. - Germaine Greer, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
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> And the smell of the library was always the same--the musty odour of old
> clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the
> chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup."  -
> Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton
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> From A Book Addict's Treasury, by Julie Rugg & Lynda Murphy.
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> Have a good weekend,
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> Jamie King
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> Cataloging Services
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> Follett Library Resources
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> McHenry, IL
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