Sometimes a library use is simple. You want something, go to the library to get it, and leave satisfied. Sometimes it can be more than that. You look at a website on a library computer and that reminds you of a book of which you have not thought for years or takes you to an article by someone completely unknown to you that, in turn, takes you to a DVD of a half-forgotten movie. Once you have had that experience, you understand the true glory of the library — that complex and never-ending series of connections to the entire human record.
— Michael Gorman, Our Own Selves: More Meditations for Librarians, p. 204