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“shuffled and reordered”
“Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everybody can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
- Italo Calvino
TV and the Internet
“If television’s a babysitter, the internet’s a drunk librarian who won’t shut up.”
– Text of a sticker available through the Cat and Girl webcomic store.
I also like the one that says, “My other car is a Pynchon novel.”
Our business
“Personally, I don’t see the library as being in the information business. In fact, I don’t see us in the service business anymore either. We’re in the inspiration business, and everything that we do should drive their success.”
- Brian Mathews, User Experience Librarian at Georgia Tech
Good advice
“If you want to be a good archaeologist, get out of the library.”
- Henry “Indiana” Jones, Junior, in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Change and possibility
“A true act creates the conditions of its own possibility. That is to say, it appears impossible, you do it, and the whole field changes: it’s possible.”
- Slavoj Žižek, during today’s Democracy Now
Discovered via One Big Library.
Bookaholics
“Bookaholics are the ones who start to feel uncomfortable and uneasy in another person’s house, and suddenly realize there are no bookshelves or magazines lying around. People who only own a telephone book and their high school yearbooks scare us.”
– Robert Lee Hadden
Thanks to Susan K for passing this along.