Tatyana Eckstrand

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. _ Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I__e stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put in my hands in a matter of minutes. _ Michael Perry, Handbook for Freelance Writing

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, __oems of the Gifts

Blaming the library for exposure to pornography is like blaming the lake if your child walks up to it alone, falls in and then drowns. _ David Sawyer, Spokesman-Review, 18 December 2000