Melvil Dewey Quotes
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“A librarys function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.”
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“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”
— Melvil Dewey
“Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.”
— Melvil Dewey
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
— Melvil Dewey
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
— Melvil Dewey
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