The Librarianship of Love
A committed librarian is a person who loves humanity and seeks to help individuals and society; a person who loves learning and the achievements of humankind; and, above all, a…
Search Results for: Our Singular Strengths
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Life-Changing Places
In every library there is a sense of possibility, a potential for wonder. For all our orderliness and organization, for all the stillness and quiet, just below the surface there…
Book Bliss
We know that we do not need personal books — least of all librarian book collectors — but there is something about the way they speak to us unopened and…
Books and Movies
Movies are pale shadows of great books, but some great movies have been made from second-rate books…. Masterpieces of the cinema are independent works with their own qualities — few…
Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science
Books are for use. Every book its reader. Every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. The library is a growing organism. — Quoted by Michael Gorman in…
Intellectual Freedom
Bad thought made freely available is rendered sterile. — Michael Gorman, quoting Ranganathan in Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians, p. 25