Marilyn Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Tough Times #Waste #Librarian
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Library
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Player #Levels #Information
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for allâ€”librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and theyâ€™re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.Dâ€¦In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Commitment #Loss #Player
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.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Death #Writing #Trying
The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Waterfalls #Stories #Down And
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Teacher #Community #Police
We are all living history, and itâ€™s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thingâ€™s certain, though: if we throw it away, itâ€™s gone.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Important #Gone #Certain
Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Memories #Skills #Organization
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Book #Circles #Library
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Democracy #Information #Foundation
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.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Men #Shoes #Rubber
This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.
-- Marilyn Johnson

#Romance #Modern #Staff

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