S G's List: Library

• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in  education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

• He is wise who knows the sources of  knowledge -- where it is written and where it is to be found.
  - A.A. Hodge

   

  I find that a great part of the  information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something  else on the way.
  - Franklin P.  Adams

   

  Knowledge is of two kinds. We know  a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon  it.
  - Samuel Johnson

   

  Research means that you don't know,  but are willing to find out.
  - Charles F.  Kettering

   

  As a general rule,  the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.  
  - Benjamin  Disraeli

   

  To know where you can find  anything, that in short is the largest part of learning.
  - Anonymous

   

   

• We know that without libraries, without education, which is based largely on  libraries, we cannot have an educated people who will carry on successfully our  form of government,
• We have got to think in exactly the same way about helping them to live mentally  and to attain better standards, and we can do it only through the children. We  can do ground work with the children; we must begin with them; but we have got  to do a tremendous amount with the older people.
  
• We are facing a great change in civilization, and the responsibility, I think,  for what we do with our leisure time is a very great responsibility for all of  us who have intellectual interests

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• Exam essay - S G on 2008-06-30
• For a democracy to flouris in teh digital age, citizens need free and open access to ideas mor than ever. - S G on 2008-06-30
• School librarians expanded their roles, p. 11, 1st col. - S G on 2008-06-30

• Collection management policies, considered and formally adopted by governing  entities, are a prerequisite to maintaining a useful materials collection
• A selection policy describes the procedures and policies for adding material to  the collection. A collection development policy includes the elements of a  selection policy, but it also describes how the library`s collection serves its  users, where the strengths and weaknesses are, how the collection relates to  those in other local libraries, and what the goals are for the development of  the collection.

• The policy should be written for the library staff, the library board, the  governing organization, and the patrons of the library. It should both guide the  collection development activities and explain those activities and their results  to others.

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