Melvil Dewey Quotes

• The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

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  Librarian   Triumphant   Militancy  

  "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.

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• Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

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  Book   Inspiration   Giving  

  "Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship".

  1918

• 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.

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  Strong   Heart   Greatness  

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• Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

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  Pain   Tasks   Fortitude  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

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  Teacher   Book   School  

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• Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

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  Reading   Electricity   Steam  

  Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”

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• The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

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  Conflict   Worst   Eternal  

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