Tuesday, January 24, 2012

For me, there's a critical symbolic value to libraries as well. Their existence tells us that books are so vital to our intellectual well-being that we keep them on display in special buildings and pass them between each other, as if they were community treasures.
~Steve Lopez, LA Times

4 comments:

Kerry M said...

I love this!!

Trish said...

so true, isn't it?!

laughingwolf said...

assholes on toronto council not only want to cut back library hours, they also want to close some, permanently!

[of course that should read 'books', in the quote....

Trish said...

Thanks! I just fixed it . . .

Yeah, Toronto . . . I know. Shame.