Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

(1944-2014. Norwegian writer and law professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law)

"To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."

"To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."

"You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"

"You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"

"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."

"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."

"Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world."

"Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world."

"Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons."

"Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons."

"I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card."

"I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card."

(Professor and Director of the School of Library & Information Science at the University of South Carolina, the Follett Chair at Dominican’s Graduate School of Library & Information Science, and recipient of the American Library Association’s 2016 Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship)

(b. 1965. British novelist, screenwriter, and producer, best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series)

"When in doubt go to the library."

"When in doubt go to the library."

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."

"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library."

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France [Photo credit: Vincent Desjardins/Wikipedia]







QUOTES ABOUT LIBRARIANS

Best quotes about librarians, catalogers, and library and information professionals on what they do and why they are indispensable for society.







"When you absolutely positively have to know, ask a librarian."





American Library Association













"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one."





Neil Gaiman



(b. 1960. English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films)













"The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the library staff."





Timothy Healy



(1923-1992. Former President, New York Public Library)













"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."





Linton Weeks



(Washington Post Staff Writer) in Washington Post, January 13, 2001.













"Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed."





Charles Medawar



(a specialist on medical policy and drug safety, director of a small London-based unit, Social Audit Ltd) in The Social Audit Consumer Handbook: A Guide To The Social Responsibilities Of Business To The Consumer.













"Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge."





Patrick Ness



(b. 1971. British-American author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter)













"Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress."





Willard Scott



(b. 1934. American weather presenter, author, television personality, actor, clown, comedian and radio personality)













"It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell."





Jarrett J. Krosoczka



(b. 1977. American author and illustrator)

















"Who Needs a Librarian and Cataloger When You Have Google and Internet? Well, Who Needs a Teacher When You Have Wikipedia? And, Who Needs a Doctor When You Have WebMD? Just as the Wikipedia Doesn't Replace the Teacher, and WebMD Doesn’t Replace the Doctor, In the Same Way, Google Search and Internet Doesn’t Replace the Librarian and Cataloger."





Salman Haider



(b. 1977. Librarian, cataloger, blogger, and creator of Librarianship Studies & Information Technology blog)















"I'm a Librarian, Librarianship is my religion, Libraries are my temple, and Catalog is my key weapon to unlock the wealth of wisdom and knowledge stored in the libraries."





Salman Haider



(Librarian, cataloger, blogger, and creator of Librarianship Studies & Information Technology blog)



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(Librarian, cataloger, blogger, and creator of Librarianship Studies & Information Technology blog)

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE QUOTES

Best quotes about Cataloging, Classification and other important topics in Library and Information Science.





"RDA offers libraries the potential to change significantly how bibliographic data is created and used. RDA is a standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world."





OCLC, Librarianship Studies & Information Technology.















"Classification, broadly defined, is the act of organizing the universe of knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of the human mind."





Lois Mai Chan



(1934-2014. American librarian, author, and professor at the University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science, winner of Margaret Mann Citation for her contributions to the library science profession) in the book Cataloguing and Classification: An Introduction.













"Cataloging is an old-fashioned term for resource access and discovery services. With resources increasingly available and accessed electronically, description and access points are vital to discovery and use by students and faculty."





Jan Daniel



(Greenville Technical College, United States) in the book Survey of Emerging Cataloging Practices: Use of RDA by Academic Libraries











"Quality cataloging takes time and money. Without a good catalog, there is no library."





Colin Bitter



(Cataloging Specialist, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, United States) in the book Survey of Emerging Cataloging Practices: Use of RDA by Academic Libraries















"Cutting cataloguing budgets and support year after year and retirement after retirement is hurting the library in the long run and burning out the staff that remains. We need time and resources to learn the new models and standards at the same time we do our day to day work. This is work that now takes a bit longer to do - but in the long run we are making better records. The new linked data models have the potential for revolutionizing the services and information libraries can provide for their users and keep libraries relevant in an increasingly web-based information environment."





Donna Frederick



(Metadata Librarian, University of Saskatchewan, Canada) in the book Survey of Emerging Cataloging Practices: Use of RDA by Academic Libraries

















"Quality authority work and attention to authority work by everyone working in the database is ESSENTIAL to the future of library linked data."





B. Iseminger



(Senior Music Catalog Librarian. Harvard University, Music Library, United States) in the book Survey of Emerging Cataloging Practices: Use of RDA by Academic Libraries.

















"If you want a future of libraries, it is within you, the librarians. If you want a healthy community that seeks out knowledge, and seeks informed conversation, then advocate for it beyond your walls."





R. David Lankes



(Professor and Director of the School of Library & Information Science at the University of South Carolina, the Follett Chair at Dominican’s Graduate School of Library & Information Science, and recipient of the American Library Association’s 2016 Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship)















"There is fantastic information in books. Often when I do a search, what is in a book is miles ahead of what I find on a Web site."

Sergey Brin



(Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google.







"Cataloguing is more than merely ‘processing’ an item. Metadata gives voice to collected works, brings their form and meaning to the surface of discovery, so that collections might be found and enjoyed."

Alissa M.



(Librarian, Cataloger) on Twitter.









" Only librarians like to search, Everyone else likes to find. "

Roy Tennant



(Roy Tennant is an internationally recognized thought leader in library technology. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. Roy wrote a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal for a decade and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.)



[source] (Roy Tennant is an internationally recognized thought leader in library technology. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. Roy wrote a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal for a decade and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.)







New York Public Library, New York





PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT QUOTES

Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella, that I decided to collect these quotes and present to the library and information professionals to empower and enable them to become better persons and professionals. Below some quotes, I have included a section "My Take" which is my perspective, opinion, or idea(s) about that quote when it is seen with reference to the development of Library and Information Science, Librarianship Studies & Information Technology.













"Every person, organization, and even society reaches a point at which they owe it to themselves to Hit Refresh -- to reenergize, renew, reframe, and rethink their purpose. If only it were as easy as punching that little refresh button on your browser. Sure, in this age of continuous updates and always-on technologies, hitting refresh may sound quaint, but still when it's done right, when people and culture re-create and refresh, a renaissance can be the result."

Satya Nadella



(Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft) in his book Hit Refresh.

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"A leader must see the external opportunities and the internal capability and culture--and all of the connections among them--and respond to them before they become obvious parts of the conventional wisdom."



Satya Nadella



(Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft) in his book Hit Refresh.









"I've often said that the best lines of computer code are like poetry. The writer struggles to compress so much thought and feeling into the fewest lines possible while still communicating the fullness of expression."



Satya Nadella



(Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft) in his book Hit Refresh.









"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi



(Father of the nation, India).



[source] (Father of the nation, India).











"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Steve Jobs



(Co-founder of Apple Inc.) in his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005.



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(Co-founder of Apple Inc.) in his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005.





"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."



Steve Jobs



(Co-founder of Apple Inc.)







"Life is a 100-meter dash. Time is the race. Timing is of the essence. And success belongs to those who can squeeze the life out of every moment, instant, microsecond."





















































SEE ALSO Best inspirational and motivational quotes for personality development, personal development, and self-improvement of librarians and information professionals. These are my personal favorite quotes which have made a great impact on me and my personality as a librarian. Initially, I intended to make this article as a collection of quotes on libraries, librarians, and library and information science only, but it was when I was reading the bookby Satya Nadella, that I decided to collect these quotes and present to the library and information professionals to empower and enable them to become better persons and professionals. Below some quotes, I have included a section "My Take" which is my perspective, opinion, or idea(s) about that quote when it is seen with reference to the development of Library and Information Science, Librarianship Studies & Information Technology.









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