I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
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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.
My modest wish then was that the library might, at some future time, have a building so I could see the light of day. It took 15 years from preliminary discussions to the opening of the museum to see those wishes realized.
August gave a little talk before the show about how he dropped out of school, regretted it and spent hours in the library educating himself, ... He talked about developing your intellect, being open to the world and life through books. It was one of the most brilliant speeches I've ever heard on that subject, and it really moved those kids.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered
When we packed the books for storage, each library shelf was numbered and the books were put into boxes that were marked with numbers corresponding to the library shelves. Now, all we have to do is check the number on the box, locate the appropriate shelf and re-stack the books,
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
When we bought this house, we designated this room the library,
Brian Walsh, Foxtel's director of television, was there from day one. His fondest memory is the day he rolled up his sleeves and carried boxes of one-inch broadcast video tapes of Dallas (the first program to arrive from Foxtel's program suppliers) from the dock to the tape library. It was extraordinary, ... It was a wonderful, wonderful time.
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
Some of these changes not only are things that are better for the library, but they're based on student comments. So we did this in a way to not only make it more accessible to students, but to give them a better place to study.
The contract girls will be lending their beautiful assets to set us apart in the wireless market, ... I'm really jazzed that with our proven management team and extensive content library, jennawireless.com will be 1 in this exciting new technology space.
RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the saints, the ears of Balaam's ass, the lung of the cock that called Peter to repentance and so forth. Reliquaries are commonly of metal, and provided with a lock to prevent the contents from coming out and performing miracles at unseasonable times. A feather from the wing of the Angel of the Annunciation once escaped during a sermon in Saint Peter's and so tickled the noses of the congregation that they woke and sneezed with great vehemence three times each. It is related in the Gesta Sanctorum that a sacristan in the Canterbury cathedral surprised the head of Saint Dennis in the library. Reprimanded by its stern custodian, it explained that it was seeking a body of doctrine. This unseemly levity so raged the diocesan that the offender was publicly anathematized, thrown into the Stour and replaced by another head of Saint Dennis, brought from Rome.
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
We're celebrating it all week here at the library.
These books are the students' very own to keep. This is a great program encouraging the children to read and build a home library.
I went to libraries. I went to the Library of Congress. I went to obscure video shops. Some of the most obscure films I found were in the dark, hidden, X-rated corners of the store.
Cathy Clark was in the library and heard noises. This girl came up screaming ... like, 'Someone's got a gun.' She said get under the table. So everyone got under the table, ... These two guys came up and they were shooting randomly -- there was bombing, I guess, downstairs and people were screaming.
Three areas are still off-limits. The library and science room are still a crime scene. The cafeteria is being cleaned up.
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.
back in the city's control - not the library board.
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
If you're a student, you take one step into the digital learning center, and you can do all your research, all your packaging, all your copying. When you step out of the library, you're ready to take the next step right into the classroom with a finished product.
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.
We have cracked down on library books, cell phone calls, fertilizer purchases and wearing shoes in the airport, but we have done almost nothing at the state level to make it harder for either a terrorist, garden variety armed robber, or young person to get their hands on a handgun.
People for far too long have taken advantage of the library. It addresses a need, and it's done in the real world.
The returning teams come back because it is fun. They enjoy the competition with other teams and it is for the library.
By and large, consumers are going to opt for doing it on their PC, because that's the place where they want to manage their music, keep their library.