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Scott Douglas
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January 01, 1978
in The United States
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David Foster Wallace; Thomas Pynchon; Flannery O'Connor
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location: Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA, The United States description: 10 AM – 10:45 AM (House Committee Room 5) Book Talk: There’s No Sleeping on the Bathroom Floor and Other Tales from the Library Frontlines 11 AM - 11:45AM : Book Signing 2 PM – 2:45 PM (House Committee Room 1) Discussion: Blogging Is Writing, Too…Or Is It? |
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“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”
― Scott Douglas
― Scott Douglas
“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos. ”
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
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“To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.”
― Scott Douglas
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.”
― Scott Douglas
“There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants
to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that
was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,
not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians
were only as important as the community they inspired. If I
was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect
information, it would be to bring the community together and
inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.”
― Scott Douglas
to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that
was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,
not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians
were only as important as the community they inspired. If I
was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect
information, it would be to bring the community together and
inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.”
― Scott Douglas
“When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”
― Scott Douglas
― Scott Douglas
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.”
― Scott Douglas
― Scott Douglas





















































