{"id":581,"date":"2008-07-28T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/07\/28\/the-true-glory-of-the-library\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T23:00:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T03:00:39","slug":"the-true-glory-of-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"The True Glory of the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a library use is simple.\u00c2\u00a0 You want something, go to the library to get it, and leave satisfied.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it can be more than that.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you have had that experience, you understand the true glory of the library &#8212; that complex and never-ending series of connections to the entire human record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Michael Gorman, <em>Our Own Selves:\u00c2\u00a0 More Meditations for Librarians, <\/em>p. 204<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a library use is simple.\u00c2\u00a0 You want something, go to the library to get it, and leave satisfied.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it can be more than that.\u00c2\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}