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May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction

It offers constant problems and perplexities

strong role in domesticating

Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people

Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.

Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy

even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally

change is our only certainty

argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all

Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.

Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.

Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.

also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths

available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.

librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas

readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult

core values of librarianship are access and service

always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy

Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.

Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth

Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel

nformation person and a story person

Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens: