Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.