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Author
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Popular Quotes in Library and Information
Science
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Alan
Powell
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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
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Daulat
Singh Kothari
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Library is the heart of the university
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Donald J. Urquhart
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Library can be useful to society
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Francis
Bacon
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Some
books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and
digested
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Francis Keese Wynkoop Drury
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“The
high purpose of book selection is to provide the right book to the right
reader at the right time”
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Francis Keese Wynkoop Drury
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Right
Book to the right reader at the right time
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Francis Keese Wynkoop Drury
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"The high purpose of Book Selection is to
provide the right book for the right reader at the right time".
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Book Selection (1930)
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Helen Elizabeth Haines
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"From every book invisible threads reach out
to other books, and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the
whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more
varied and interesting".
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Living with Books: The Art of Book Selection
(1935)
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M.
C. Yovits
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Information
is data of value to decision making
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Madden,
Moon, Moore, Mc Pheron
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Librarianship
is not a profession
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Melvil
Dewey
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To
provide the best books to the maximum readers at the least cost
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Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey
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“The Choice of books is an unending work".
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Book Selections (1877)
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R.
Astall
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Special
libraries serve a specialist clientele, located within a single establishment
or group and all engaged in working towards one common purpose
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S.
R. Ranganathan
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Library
as a living system “takes a new matter, casts off old matter, changes in size
and takes new shapes and term”
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S.
R. Ranganathan
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God
has chosen me as an instrument; the honour done to me should act as an
incentive to the younger generation to devote their lives whole heartedly to
library science and service
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S.
R. Ranganathan
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Reference
service is the contact between the right reader and the right book in the
right personal way
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S.
R. Ranganathan
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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.”
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S. R. Ranganathan
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Library is a growing organization
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Samuel Johnson
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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a
subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it"
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James Boswell. Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
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Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
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Library
is the heart of an Institution
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Sayajirao Gaekwad
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Library is a people’s University
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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM
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"Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have
lost in information?"
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Poem: The Rock (1934)
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William A. Katz
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Search
strategy is the looking mirror in the dark
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Dr. Badan Barman
at present working as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University,
Guwahati-781014, Assam, India. He is the creator of the LIS Links (http://www.lislinks.com) - India’s most popular social networking
website for Library and Information Science professionals. He also created the Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE) (http://www.oajse.com), UGC NET Guide (http://www.netugc.com), Assam Archive (http://www.assamarchive.com) and LIS Study (http://www.lisstudy.com) website.
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