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A library card, ... An adult library card.

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind

A lot of people would ask what was going on next door, not realizing that it is, in fact, the library that's doing it,

A lot of people spent a lot of time and worked very, very hard. I think it's excellent because the library is the anchor of the community.

They've been operating city hall from the library since I was elected,

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

People used to be ignorant. It was hard to learn things. You had to go to libraries, look things up, perhaps sit and wait until a book was fetched from storage, or recalled from another user, or borrowed from a different library . . . Things are different today. I'm writing this in a bar right now, and I have most of human knowledge at my fingertips.

Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in the Patriot Act the mention of library records.

Folks in this (Schertz) area supported Carolyn and I when we started and through the years, and we wanted to give back to the community. Supporting a new library seemed like the best way to help the whole area. A lot of people use a library.

First, we created a map and driving guide of Braddock's Road, which follows the route that his army took from Fort Necessity to Braddock. We published 10,000 of these maps and distributed most of them through Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau sites, county welcome sites, and through the Westmoreland County Federated Library System.

Even a huge library couldn't have provided these kinds of resources 25 years ago. It's something that we are particularly excited about to have those capabilities.

The park board voted that it makes some sense to have it at Evergreen because we have some synergy with services already provided by the library and (a neighborhood) city hall.

There is room for an Olympic-size swimming pool between the current library parking lot and the parking lot for Metro.

I used to spend Saturday mornings at the old library growing up. I think it's tremendous, the most important part of the city as far as a I am concerned.

This coming year, we're going to be working on cooperative data base purchasing. Hopefully we'll standardize what each library offers electronically. We're going to continue meeting monthly and increase (ways in which) we cooperate on services.

This community is just demonstrating time and again how much they want their library services. They demonstrate it with their feet.

This building will probably extend the center of our campus a little farther north. There was a big shift with the liberal arts building because it's all classrooms and offices, so there's a lot more traffic in that part of our facility, and the library will only add to that traffic pattern.

This event is a maneuver to obscure the fact that this local government is potentially aiding those in this country illegally. The library should not place itself in that position.

This acquisition would be consistent with our desire to broaden and deepen our library of filmed entertainment, as well as to add an important musical component, and, as we discussed, to introduce (Image Entertainment) as a new studio label focusing on specialty theatrical content,

This gets the library's name out there. We do get people that find the library because of it. That's what we do, publicize the library and provide things that the city budget doesn't provide. And it's fun.

The Web will become a testing ground for older library content. Older content is desirable because you don't have to build up marketing for it. It's still part of the cultural zeitgeist.

This is a day that many people focus on the American presidency and its history. Therefore, it's appropriate for a presidential library to do something special.

This is one of Andrew Carnegie's original libraries. It opened in 1902. It has always been a library and by the 1980s, when the steel mills were shutting down, we were able to hang on by the skin of our teeth. From 1985 to the early 1990s, we were struggling to keep the doors open.

Your library card is your ticket to opportunity, ... What other card in your wallet gives you free access to books and magazines, DVDs and videos, computers and Internet access?

Your library card is your ticket to opportunity. What other card in your wallet gives you free access to books and magazines, DVDs and videos, computers and Internet access?

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.

This is another significant step in monetizing our non-core assets and further sharpening our focus on our core content creation and distribution businesses and library in a digital marketplace. We are pleased to sell our studio facilities to a buyer committed to expanding the film industry of British Columbia.

This is going to make it so much easier for people to get in the library and use the resources.

This is not a good environment. If the library is not a good place for students to go to, there are no other adequate resources for them to use in the building to effectively learn.

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

In 1979, the library collection was moved to the new North Campus, ... and the original building renamed Abbott Hall for Charles Abbott. Between 1983 and 1985, it underwent a $5.5 million renovation and enlargement, and today houses the university's Health Sciences Library.

In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,

In my day the library was a wonderful place... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

I join Dean Frances Coleman, the director of our campus library system, in thanking Mr. Barnes for this significant contribution. It will greatly enhance our collection.

I knew he was a writer, we had all his books in the library, but it never really clicked. And I remember being in the library and taking out one of his books and then I realized -- he did this for a living.

I personally enjoy it because I've spent my life in the library. I was the director at the library at Marshall University for 10 years, and I've always enjoyed reading.

I have no evidence anyone is doing any more substantial research because they're on the Internet than if they went into the library and looked it up in hard copy. Real learning takes time and energy and a great deal of patience. Computers give students with short attention spans the ability to flip through many sources of information ... at a very shallow level. The information's out there, but that doesn't mean you know it.

If making these patents available in a single library accelerates the use of open source software and spurs innovation... separate and distinct from that is the whole patent reform issue.

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

If you look at what we did in our library -- we reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent, we reduced our electric bill by 34 percent, with more efficient lighting, more efficient heating, all kinds of conservation measures. We have over 300 solar panels which were made in America. So instead of sending money to Saudi Arabia or someplace else for oil we sent the money to an American manufacturing company to hire Americans to make solar panels. So it is good business.

So far I can say the Friends of the Atlanta Library and Museum are pleased beyond expectations.

Serious problems remain in the Patriot Act that require serious reforms. Unfortunately, the proposed changes to the reauthorization bill do not correct the secret record search powers and do not require that there be any individualized suspicion of wrongdoing by Americans before their financial, medical, library or other records can be searched. Common sense reforms could have required that records sought be connected to a suspected terrorist or terrorist organization. We will continue to press for these and other needed reforms to protect American freedoms.

Everyone has a gripping stranger in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it's the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing white shoulders who stamps your book at the library - a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying, "Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida," you'd follow them.

That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library book. I think he was very smart and did more than fly a kite.

The board of education has no business allowing the library board under our flag to run a bond issue. We go to the public enough. Probably more than enough.

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

This is just the beginning for us. We're doing our entire library of triple-X films and putting that out.

Dale's interviews will be a welcome addition to the library archive because every interview is unique, and his contact with numerous legends produced engaging and diverse interviews with a number of baseball's greatest players.

Dana Grimmett has taken our library to a higher limit! She is making it the very best.

The No. 1 goal is to get out of the way of the library so that they can start construction. As of June 12, the clock will be ticking.

The nomination of John Roberts has evolved considerably since July, when the White House was successful in portraying him as a lawyer above the fray.... Almost daily revelations coming out of the Reagan presidential library show someone at the epicenter of a comprehensive assault on fundamental rights that have been part of the law for decades,

The intent is not to fill the shelves completely, but to shelf books accurately to allow for growth. Any library should have 5-6 inches on each shelf.

The insurance industry can benefit significantly from a comprehensive library of software resources. A service-oriented approach to providing access to library components is a flexible, cost-effective way to help organizations determine which components they may require to better manage their business.

It took 16,000 bricks. I worked with my grandfather, who was a bricklayer and carpenter. We also relied on books from the library for the heating, wiring and plumbing.

It works out to about $267 per use for the bookmobile. But (the county library association) deals with all the maintenance.

In only their second year of operation, Northwest Specialty Hospital's generous support of educational projects in our community demonstrates extraordinary commitment to life-long learning in North Idaho. Along with the $100,000 challenge grant awarded to the library project by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation last week, NWSH is providing a great catalyst in our efforts to raise the total $1.4 million dollars needed to complete this important public resource.

In the area of Hancock County, Mississippi, where the Incident Management Team was assigned, I saw areas of total annihilation. I saw a village where the town hall, bank, church, and library were completely lifted away, with nothing remaining,

I'll definitely have to start a lot earlier on my schoolwork. Usually, I'm in the library on Sunday trying to get things done, because usually I don't have a lot of time. It's school, work and then schoolwork for me.

In the past, libraries were concrete boxes, and you had to be brave enough to walk inside. When you have buildings that are transparent with lots of light and windows, it gives people the opportunity to get a glimpse of what's going on inside. It makes the whole experience of going to the library a little more friendly. We're no longer just about books. We're a lot about social spaces, for people to congregate as a community.

If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job.

If you think about libraries built even 20, 30 years ago, they were about protecting books, keeping the light out, kind of creating an environment that kept people apart from the world. What you're seeing (now) is lots of glass. ... the library becomes very transparent.

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

By utilizing technology and modernizing our operations we've become more efficient and effective at delivering library services throughout the county. We are proud that we can make these improvements at no additional cost to the taxpayers. Technology can truly help us level the inequities in service across the county.

I love our library and I think it is a great addition to the community. And it is kind of cool that they have animal traps.

By and large they are pretty good. There are some who are new and don't understand the library etiquette and sometimes my presence will calm them down.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

He's the only player I've ever had who checks books out of my library in my office. This guy can read a book in about 15 minutes I think. He checks them out. He takes the jacket off, leaves the jacket, then puts it back on when he comes back.

These volumes will serve as an anchor resource in our library and documentation center. The significance of the Nuremberg trials still resonates powerfully for our world today.

They would get books on astronomy out of the city library for me. They would allow me stay up late at night to look at things in the sky.

It's dated, but it's very nice. It could be used for the library if the town wanted to use it for that.

-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised?

Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

A public library does not acquire Internet terminals in order to create a public forum for Web publishers to express themselves, any more than it collects books in order to provide a public forum for the authors of books to speak.

A reading center is inadequate for over 60,000 people, ... We know it's going to be very busy, and it's going to be great to have a library this size with this many materials and computers to serve this area of the county, which is now underserved.

The most novel and interesting part of the standard library is the general and extensible framework for containers and algorithms.

A research library like the University of Toronto needs to preserve access to knowledge over the very long term.

As far as I know there has never been a public library branch in May's Lick.

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

As a librarian, I have seen a lot of books checked out of the library that I didn't think were very good, but people came back to return those same books and said that the book changed their lives.

The Friends of the Geneva Library do a lot of special projects for us and purchase many extras that benefit the library,

The first time I went to the grocery store it was crazy. I couldn't read any of the labels because they were all in Danish. I just freaked out for a few minutes. Finally, I just looked at the pictures on the boxes and bought from there. But I did go to the library and learned the language as quickly as a could.

You've got a second-rate library here. A great city deserves a great library. Regrettably, her assessment is true.

The church is part of a cultural precinct that includes the museum and historical society, theatre, school, library and community college,

The good thing is that library employees are going to get a 3 percent raise, the bad part is that some will get laid off.

The idea of the course is to teach students to learn more English so they can assimilate themselves better in the community. Our goal is to help them be able to ask directions if they get lost, go to the library and ask for what they need. It's a very practical use of English.

You can sit here and you can visit the national library of Australia, of Great Britain, of France, of Germany, ... And that's the nature of reading today.

The Kellogg-Hubbard Library faces serious financial challenges. We realize we are bringing our request to voters at the last minute, but in the face of a potentially large deficit the board felt we needed to take immediate action.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

The library board was wrestling with the recent court decision on CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) which restricted federal funding for Internet access to libraries that refused to use filtering software. The board preferred education over filters to protect children from the dangers that exist on the Internet because filtering software is known for filtering out important health and medical sites.

The library is open and will continue to be open into the foreseeable future. There are no plans to close the library at this point.

The library is the heart of the school, it's the hub.