5 Quotes Tagged: librarian

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive

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

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.