Melvil Dewey citations

“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”

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Melvil Dewey

"The Relation of the State to the Public Library", (1889)

“To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.”

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“The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds.”

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Melvil Dewey

"Field and Future of Traveling Libraries". Home Education Department. Bulletin. State University of New York (1901), (40).