Proof of education is in ... (not in a university degree)

An eminent educationist Cyril Norwood in his speech at the Annual Conference of ASLIB (1935) said firmly, "It is better proof of education to know how to use a library than to possess a university degree." (source) (from the text of the speech)

Also quoted by C.K. Sharma, ‎Kiran Singh - 2005 - ‎Library administration

and cited in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations  

Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S S R Valluri Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 

(New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) (p. 284). 

Advise On Best Books To Select in a Library, Charles Ammi Cutter (1837 – 1903)

He said:
    'There is no royal road to the selection of a library. There are no "best books." "Each in its place is best." There are no books which  can truly be called "the only good books." There are very many desirable  books of very varying degrees of literary and other merit, which must      be provided to suit, I do not say the tastes, but the needs of the  public; and the library so made is not going to be at all a library of  standard books or an ideal library or, in the judgment of most people,  a well-selected library. But it may nevertheless be a very useful and a   very educational library.'[source: Library Journal, 1901]

Also quoted in Dictionary of Library and Information Science  Quotations 

    Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S S R Valluri Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) (p. 100). 

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·                   Library book selection then (1925), now (2013),... in principle it remains unchanged...

Information is for use -- thought for the day

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• "If information - including conflicting views and sometimes even contradictory views - comes from every quarter, we are more likely to arrive at the truth out of that welter than if only one aspect of it was presented. The whole concept of freedom of information rests on this idea." Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, born this day, 14 November,  1889 in Freedom of Information (1962) quoted in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) (p. 281).
• “Information is the only resource that grows, with use as it is sub-divided and spreads.” quoted in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S S R Valluri. Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) (p. 370).
• "First and formost, freedom of exchange of ideas and results. The more free communication is
  hampered, the more inefficient the process of knowledge generation becomes. On a wall in the Delft
  library a slogan says: “Information is the only resource that grows with use.” Universities have known
  that for centuries already and modern knowledge management theories depart from there. Recently,
  MIT announced their Open Courseware project and decided to make public all their course material on
  the Internet. When I disussed this with Delft people, I only met twinkling eyes. Our scholars love the
  idea; in fact, they seemed to be somewhat jealous." Leo Waaijers, "Stratum continuum of Information: Scolarlycommunications and the role of university libraries" (Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences, 2001)