Library Related Famous Statements

Here we are discussing the library-related famous Statements given by famous personalities.

Famous Personality Statements

• The best reading for the largest number at least cost - Melvil Dewey (1879)

• The main purpose of book selection is to provide the right book to the right reader at the right time - Francis Drury (1930)

• Reference Service is the contact between the right reader and the right book at the right time and in the right personal way - S R Ranganathan (- Reference Service)

• Notation is a shorthand sign - E C Richardson

• Demand and Supply Theory - McColvin (1925)

• Who says what in which channel to whom with what effect - Harold Lasswell (1940) [5W Model]

• Each village should have libraries like we have tanks and wells - Chilkamarti Lakshmi Narshimhan

• Father of Library Science in India....S R Ranganathan - Maurice Gwyer

• Prince among the Librarian....S R Ranganathan - Maurice Gwyer

• God had chosen me as an instrument, the honour done to me should act as an incentive to the younger generation to devote their lives wholeheartedly to library science and service - S R Ranganathan

• The Students were the body of the university, the administration was of course the head the teachers were the soul and the library, the heart - C D Deshmukh

• If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others - S R Ranganathan

• The library is a people’s university - Sayajirao Gaekwad - III

• The Public Library should be established under the clear mandate of law - The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto, 1972

• The public library is the responsibility of local and national authorities. It must be supported by specific legislation and financed by national and local governments, It has to be an essential component of any long-term strategy for culture, information provision, literacy and education - The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto, 1972

• A search strategy is the mirror in the dark - Kartz

• Ranganathan is to library science what Einstein is to physics - Eugene Garfield

• Information is both Product and Process - J Martin

• Library as a living system, takes a new matter, casts off old matter, changes in size and takes new shapes and term (एक जीवित व्यवस्था के रूप में लाइब्रेरी "एक नया विषय लेता है, पुराने पदार्थ को बंद कर देता है, आकार में परिवर्तन करता है और नए आकार और शब्द लेता है ) - S R Ranganathan

• Information is more powerful than physical technology and its form I an invisible link that binds a society together - William E Halal

• Wherever telescoping of the array is done, the canon of Hierarchy is violated. This violation is deliberately done to satisfy the Law of Parsimony - S R Ranganathan

• Re-ordering Ranganathan: Shifting user behaviours, shifting priorities - Connaway and Faniel

• User education as instruction given to help the users make the best use of the library - Mews

• Librarianship is not a profession - Madden, Moon, Moore, Mc Pheron

• Knowledge is a sum total of information conserved by civilization - S. R. Ranganathan

• It is that exercise of power of perception and reason which enables us to assemble things in an order of likeness and to separate them according to an order of unlikeness - W. C. B. Sayers

• Special libraries serve a specialist clientele, located within a single establishment or group and all engaged in working towards one common purpose - R. Astall

• A Library Catalogue is “a list of documents in a library or in a collection forming a portion of it” - S. R. Ranganathan

• Librarianship is salesmanship - S. R. Ranganathan

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

• A catalogue is an explanatory, logically arranged inventory and key to the books and their contents and it is confined to the books in a particular library - James Duff Brown

• Management is the art of knowing what you want to do in the best and cheapest way - Frederick W. Taylor

• “A library is a public institution or establishment charged with the care of collection of books and the duty of making them accessible to those who require to use them and the task of converting every person in its neighbourhood into a habitual library goer and reader of books.” - S. R. Ranganathan

• Library classification is “the arrangement of books on shelves or descriptions of them, in the manner which is most useful to those who read - W. C. B. Sayers

• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested - Francis Bacon

• Information is both a product and process - J. Martin

•  “Library Classification is the translation of the name of the subject of a book into a preferred artificial language or ordinal numbers, and the individualization of several books dealing with the same specific subject by means of a further set of ordinal numbers which represent some features of the books other than their thought content” - S. R. Ranganathan

• Library is a place of healing for the souls - Rameses II - Egyptian king

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Other Statements related to
Commissions and Books

1. Arundell Esdaile

Bibliography is an art and also a science. “The art of recording books”; and the science “of the making of books and of their extant record”

Taken from: 'A Student's Manual of Bibliography' first published in 1931.

2. C. A. Cutter

A library catalogue is “a list of books which is arranged on some definite plan”

Taken from: ‘Rules for Dictionary Catalogue’ (1876)

3. D. S. Kothari

“No university, college or department should be set up without taking into account its library needs in terms of staff, books, journals, space etc. Nothing could be more damaging to a growing department than to neglect its library or to give it a low priority. On the contrary, the library should be an important centre of attraction on the college or university campus.”

Taken from: Kothari Commission (Education Commission) Report (1966-68)

4. Francis K.W. Drury

“To provide the right book to the right reader at the right time”

Taken from: Book Selection, Chicago: ALA, 1930

5. J. K. Rowling

“When in doubt go to the library”

Taken from: British Novelist, Best known for Harry Potter series

6. L. R. McColvin

“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”

Taken from: Theory of Book Selection, 1925

7. M. C. Yovits

“Information is data of value to decision making”

Taken from: ‘Information Science as an aid to Decision Making’ (1969) / research paper by M. C. Yovits

8. Pauline Atherton

“These words stir students to think of and believe in library service above library work as their life goal”

Taken from: Quoted with reference to ‘Five Laws of Library Science’, ALA, 1980

9. S. Radhakrishnan

“Library is the heart of all the university’s work”

Taken from: Radhakrishnan Commission (University Education Commission) Report 1948-1949

10. T. S. Elliot

“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?”

Taken from: Poem ‘The Rock” (1934)

11. UNESCO

“The public library should be established under the clear mandate of law, so framed as to ensure nation-wide provision of public library service”.

Taken from: UNESCO Public Library Manifesto, 1972

12. UNESCO/IFLA

“The public library shall in principle be free of charge. The public library is the responsibility of local and national authorities. It must be supported by specific legislation and financed by national and local governments”. 

Taken from: IFLA/ UNESCO Public Library Manifesto, 1994

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Other Important Quotes

1. ALA Glossary of Library Terms

“Catalogue is a list of books, maps etc. arranged according to some defined plan”

2. Albert Einstein

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library”

3. Bertram C. Brookes

Information as ‘fragmented knowledge’ and Knowledge as ‘coherent structures of information’

4. Fritz Machlup

Information Science is cluster of many disciplines where in the central core is ‘Information’

5. John F. Mee

Management is “the art of securing maximum results with minimum efforts so as to secure maximum prosperity and happiness for both employer and employee and give the public the best possible service”

6. Lawrence Appley

“Management is the accomplishment of results through the efforts of other people”

7. Margaret Mann

- “A catalogue is a record of the material in  library”

- Classification is ‘the arranging of things according to likeness and unlikeness’

8. Mary Parker Follett

“Management is the art of getting things done through people”

9. Ray Bradbury

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future”

10. William A. Katz

“Search strategy is the looking mirror in the dark”

11. William F. Glueck

“Management is effective utilization of human and material resources to achieve the enterprise’s objective”

 

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