Library Quotes
1. “Best is the enemy of good’ Voltair
2. “Managing Information” ASLIB
3. “Connecting people and information” SLA
4. “Librarianship is not a profession” Madden, Moon, Moore, Mc Pheron
5. “Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous literature” S. Halkett & J. Laing
6. “Every reader his/her freedom” James R. Rettig
7. “ Reference service is the contact between the Right Reader and the Right Book in the Right Personal Way” Dr.S.R. Ranganathan
8. “Library as a living system “takes a new matter, cast off old matter, changes in size and takes new shapes and term” Said by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan
9. “God has chosen me as an instument ,the honour done to me should act as an incentive to the young generation to devote their lives whole heartly to library sicence and services.”Dr.S.R. Raganathan
10. “A library is a public institution or establishment charged with the care of collection of books, the duty of making them accessible to those who require the use of them and the task of converting every person in its neighborhood into a habitual library goers and reader of books.” by Dr S R Ranganathan
11. 'Conservative, moderate and liberal theories of reference service” James Wyer In 1930
12. “Construsuction and decentration more democratic and less Authorities”, Stoner
13. “The Public library for the People, of the people and by the people” Delhi public library.
14. “Information as essentially a measure of the absence of Uncertainty” Shannon and weaver
15. “ Where is the Wisdom, we have lost the knowledge” T.S. Eliot
16. “conser- vative,” “moderate” or Liberal, Wyer theorized in 1930
17. “Choice of books is an unending work” C.A. Cutter
18. “All forms of books make a valuable contribution to education and the dissemination of culture and information. The diversity of books and editorial content is a source of enrichment that we must support through appropriate public policies and protect from uniformity. " by Irina Bokova
19. Special libraries serve a specialist clientel, located within a single establishment or group and all engaged in working towards one common purpose.” Said by R.Astall
20. ‘It is a library with little or no physical presence of books, periodicals, reading space or Support staff, but are that disseminate disseminate selective information directly to distribute library customers, usually electronically”. by Powell
21. ‘Minimum,’ ‘Middling’ and ‘Maximum” characterizing reference service as Samuel Rothstein
22. “To provide the best books to the maximum readers at the least cost" said by Melvil Dewey
23. “To provide the right book to the right reader at the right time” Drury in 1930.
24. “Books in themselves are nothing. They have no more meaning than the white paper upon which they are printed, until they are made serviceable by demand. The more closely book selection is related to demand, the greater is the resultant and possible service” L. R. McColvin advanced his Demand and Supply Theory 1925
25. “Understand Polanyi’s Tacit and Explicit knowledge and the three worlds of Knowledge” as propounded by Popper
26. Branscomb Information Society is “a society where the majority of people are engaged in creating, gathering, storage, processing or distribution of information”.
