What is a library? Quotes to inspire.
| by Laksamee Cave
Library spaces and the collections they house often inspire admiration. The power of bringing human knowledge together and providing access to information merits reflection. Find the following quotes and items in the Davis Family Library.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) is an American author and screenwriter. The New York Times described him as “the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream”
Available as an ebook:
The haunted computer and the android pope
Crear una biblioteca es crear una vida. Nunca es solo una colección aleatoria de libros quality of life. (To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.)
Uruguayan by adoption, Domínguez was born in Buenos Aires in 1955. Among his novels are La costa ciega and La mujer hablada, with which he won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Award. His great international success, La casa de papel, is quoted above.
Go check the shelves:
El norte profundo
Davis Family Library - Main Stacks
F2715 .D66 2004
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator
Listen to this audiobook on Libby:
The totally unscientific study of the search for human happiness
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
Cornelia Funke is a German author of children’s fiction.
Enjoy the movie version:
Inkheart
Davis Family Library - DVDs
PN1997.2.I5645 A1 2009D
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
An American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Tony Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Award.
Enjoy the television show:
Grace and Frankie
Davis Family Library - DVDs
PN1992.77 .G6825 v.1 2016D
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
Read more about this topic in:
LaRue, J. (2019). My Intellectual Freedom Journey: Reclaiming a Moral Sanction for the Public Sector. Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy, 3(2–3), 5–11. https://doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v3i2-3.6886
This is a publication from the American Library Association and available online via the Davis Library journal subscriptions.
Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) was an English writer and activist often described as a “poet’s poet”.
Go check the shelves:
The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
Davis Family Library - Special Collections
Rare Books & Manuscripts
PR4872 .H4 1847
A library’s ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste’s stall, a place for trouvailles.
Umberto Eco (1932-2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.
Go check the shelves:
Art and beauty in the Middle Ages
Davis Family Library - Main Stacks
BH131 .E2613 1986