Peter stood back up. ‘Well, that was a perfectly useless conversation,’ he said with a sigh. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called ‘foresight.’ It is a gift treasured above all others...

If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I’d be the most ruthless pimp you ever met. Whap the girls on the butts and send...

. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you’ve got none,Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin’ Greeks.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the...

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a “true reflection of our history,” whether it’s a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful...

She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale figures sprawled silent and motionless over their reading, the reassuring feel of her...

If television’s a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won’t shut up.

One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession,” one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, “was because I’m in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives...

She’d always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be — she was a librarian, after all.

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong...

Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?

If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available,...

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

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

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.

She’s a librarian, Sim said. They’re not teachers; don’t give you half as much hassle. If there’s a fire in the school and I’ve got to choose who I’m gonna save – a teacher or...

It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I’d rather not go into...

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I am not the kind of girl who trusts a man to tell her everything she needs to know in his own due time, so I did some research on my sire. You can take...