Librarians are not just good at internet searching because we understand how to play word games. We're good because we know where we need to go and the quickest routes for getting there; we are equipped not just with compasses but with mental maps of the information landscape.
~ Marylaine Block "Go where it is, part II" EX LIBRIS, April 13, 2001

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
~ Marston Bates

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
~ Albert Einstein

Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.
~ Arthur D. Little

Trying to find information on the Web is like walking into a library after an earthquake, with the books strewn all over the floor.
~ Debra Jones, Exploring the Internet Using Critical Thinking Skills

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
~ John Naisbitt

The mark of a well-educated person is not necessarily knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
~ Douglas Everett

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.
~ Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
~Carl Sagan