Library Service Quotes

“We know our own people; we know each teacher by name; we know the minister, the doctor, the lawyer, the merchant and most of the others who frequent our libraries. Those of another race cannot know our wants, our habits, our likes and our dislikes as we do...However much they might try it would be impossible for them to give us the service that one of our own race can give in an atmosphere where service and freedom are the predominant elements; and this is surely the condition in the colored branches in Louisville.”
― Annie L. McPheeters, Library Service in Black and White: Some Personal Recollections, 1921-1980

“I didn't go to lunch at all on Wednesday or Thursday. I went to the library and stared at the books under the rainbow banner in the back and wished my whole life didn't feel exactly like that. With all this stuff hidden in one little spot, surrounded by the things everyone else wants.”
― Jess Callans, Ollie in Between