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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Paul Schmitt • Zadie Smith - Feel Free.pdf
A Little Princess (greatest vindication story ever), The Golden Compass (greatest animal character ever), and Little Women
Gretchen Rubin • Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
Libraries must be seen as a core value.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
“books were no longer the sacred touchstones of any culture, any society, and surely not of the one in which he and Paola lived. When had he last heard a reference to a book as part of normal conversation? When had he last heard a character from a book–much less from a classic–used as a measure of good or bad for human behaviour? Harry Potter had p... See more
You can’t walk into a bank with a pile of handwritten books and get a loan.
Packy McCormick • OZE: Not Boring Investment Memo
Nancy Drew taught me that a book wasn’t merely about the words within, it was everything—the quality of paper, the intoxicating smell of the binding glue, an older formulation that you didn’t get in newer volumes, the decorative end pages. It was the book as object, the vase as much a pleasure as the flowers.