Friday, June 30, 2006

Outreaching is...

Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston 1852, p. 20

...access should be had to a City Library, the Trustees can only say, that they would place no restrictions on its use, except such as the nature of individual books, or their safety may demand; regarding it as a great matter to carry as many of them as possible into the home of the young; into poor families; into cheap boarding houses; in short, wherever they will be most likely to affect life and raise personal character and condition.


quoted in A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 1. See Amazon.com.


See also: Libraries Reach Out, Online. By TIM GNATEK, New York Times December 9, 2004

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Knowledge Sharing is...

Joseph Addison:
When knowledge, instead of being bound up in books, and kept in libraries and retirements, is thus obtruded upon the publick; when it is canvassed in every assembly, and exposed upon every table, I cannot forbear reflecting upon that passage in the proverbs, 'Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth her voice in the streets.'

[Source: The Spctator, no. 124]
quoted in A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 4. See Amazon.com.



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Much more on Knowledge sharing from Patrick's Blog

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Quantification is ...


“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin (Russian Prime Minister)


quoted in A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 14. See Amazon.com.



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Monday, June 26, 2006

A Review is....

Joseph Addison: A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the connected beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation

[Source: The Spctator, no. 291, 1712]
quoted in A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.


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