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David Pennington • 12 cards
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers,” author Neil Gaiman said. “A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
Mario Gabriele • All the Answers | The Generalist
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One afternoon I amused myself by watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting on one of the lower dead limbs of a white pine, close to the trunk, in broad daylight, I standing within a rod of him. He could hear me when I moved and cronched the snow with my feet, but could not plainly see me.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Assessing collections and services
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
She’d read in a park near the school, storing novels in the hollow of an ancient oak she thought of as her friend.
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
—Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me)
Even if you don’t plan a whole trip around them, libraries are excellent spots for weary travelers: free, quiet, cool, full of locals, and staffed by people whose job is to help any visitors who walk in the door.