Sassy Librarian

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of Skippy Dies 4 weeks ago.

• Added a quotation: “To be bored is really a crime. It's an insult to everyone who doesn't have money and power and freedom.”

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of Skippy Dies 4 weeks ago.

• Added a quotation: “... <T>hey simply do not have the capacity to relate to the past, their own or anyone else's. They live in a continuous sugar-rused present, in which remembering is a chore left to computers, like tidying your room is a chore left for the Third World maid.”Howard

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of This Book Is Overdue! Sunday, September 26, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “So spying on what they're doing in the library ... is like spying on the voting booth.”- Peter Chase, one of the Connecticut Four librarians who challenged the USA Patriot Act

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of This Book Is Overdue! Sunday, September 26, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “the weirdos in our field ... we forget how normal and stable we are until we attend a meeting at the consortium, and when these freaks return to the Mother Ship, all the stops are pulled out. I would not be surprised to find anyone wearing aluminum foil helmets or devouring their own young.”Happy Villain, blogger

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of This Book Is Overdue! Sunday, September 26, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “If you do the technology by now, you're either retired or you're off in a corner, waiting to be retired. There is still too much tolerance in the profession for being uncomfortable with technology ...”- K.G. (Karen) Schneider, Free Range Librarian

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of This Book Is Overdue! Sunday, September 26, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “Are librarians obsolete in the Age of Google? A ll I can say is: are you kidding? Librarians are more important than ever. Google and Yahoo! and Bing and WolframAlpha can help you find answers to your questions, sometimes brilliantly; but if you don't know how to phrase those questions, no search engine can help provide the answers ... You can only get so far without human help.”Marilyn Johnson

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of This Book Is Overdue! Sunday, September 26, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level the field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D. In prosperous libraries, they loan out laptops; in strapped ones, they dole out half hours of computer time. They are the little "d" democrats of the computer age who keep the rest of us wired.”Marilyn Johnson

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of This Book Is Overdue! Sunday, September 26, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “In a world where information itself is a free-for-all, with traditional news sources going bankrupt and publishersin trouble, we need librarians more than ever.”Marilyn Johnson

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of This Book Is Overdue! Sunday, September 26, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “In a world where information itself is a free-for-all, with traditional news sources going bankrupt and publishersin trouble, we need librarians more than ever.”Marilyn Johnson
• Added a quotation: “Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level <the> field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D. In prosperous libraries, they loan out laptops; in strapped ones, they dole out half hours of computer time. They are the little "d" democrats of the computer age who keep the rest of us wired.”Marilyn Johnson
• Added a quotation: “Are librarians obsolete in the Age of Google? <A>ll I can say is: are you kidding? Librarians are more important than ever. Google and Yahoo! and Bing and WolframAlpha can help you find answers to your questions, sometimes brilliantly; but if you don't know how to phrase those questions, no search engine can help provide the answers ... You can only get so far without human help.”Marilyn Johnson
• Added a quotation: “If you do the technology by now, you're either retired or you're off in a corner, waiting to be retired. There is still too much tolerance in the profession for being uncomfortable with technology ...”K.G. (Karen) Schneider, Free Range Librarian
• Added a quotation: “the weirdos in our field ... we forget how normal and stable we are until we attend a meeting at the consortium, and when these freaks return to the Mother SHip, all the stops are pulled out. I would not be surprised to find anyone wearing aluminum foil helmets or devouring their own young.”Happy Villain, blogger
• Added a quotation: “So spying on what they're doing in the library ... is like spying on the voting booth.”Peter Chase, one of the Connecticut Four librarians who challenged the USA Patriot Act

Sassy Librarian edited the memorable quotes of You Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

• Edited a quotation: “It's always been true. Your whole life is a chain of choices -- your choices ... You could have chosen to stay tight with the friends you had instead of hanging around with loses,losers, but that was another choice you made. And as far as grades, nobody forced you to become the kind of student who has few choices left.”Kyle Chase