Re: Intellectual Freedom statements

["Walter Cybulski" <CYBULSKW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone checked "The Librarian's Companion" by Vladimir Wertsman (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996)?  According to a Greenwood Press blurb it includes a section on "Who Said What on Books, Libraries, and Librarians."  I don't have access to a copy, so I can't recommend a quote.  The Pound quote "What thou lovest well remains / The rest is dross" from the Cantos is probably overused.  There must be a gist or pith in Borges.  At the end of the Borges essay on Dante's "Divine Comedy" he writes:  "I know that this book will go on, beyond my waking life, and beyond ours." Someone ought to check for an S. J. Perlman quote.

Walter Cybulski

>>> "Karen Muller" <kmuller@xxxxxxx> 11/19 9:58 AM >>>
Preservationists--

I really hope one of you does come up with something.  Put simplistically, failure to preserve can be a form of censorship .. but I'm sure you know that ... 


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>>> Barbara Berger <beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx> 11/19 7:11 AM >>>
I hope one of you can some up with an inspiring quote for this
Please respond to me directly


>Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:26:53 -0400 (EDT)
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>From: Sheila Intner <SINTNER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Intellectual Freedom statements
>To: ALCTS Board of Directors <alctsbd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Dear Colleagues --
>
>     The Office for Intellectual Freedom is celebrating its 30th anniversary
>on January 30, 1999 with a festive dinner & a commemorative program book.
>ALCTS will take an ad in the book, in which we will include our ALCTS swoosh,
>and appropriate quotes that relate to each of our areas of specialization.
>
>     Please take a moment to find & fax to me appropriate quotations for your
>area of specialty -- acquisitions, collection management & development, cat-
>aloging & classification, preservation & reformatting, serials management --
>or any other area of ALCTS interest.  I need the exact quote & the author,
>& the title of the work from which the citation came.  Feel free to
quote/cite
>famous people who weren't ALCTS members (Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Salman
>Rushdie, etc.) if they said something that is pertinent to ALCTS' areas.
>
>     I will collect your faxes & send to Karen Muller, who will see to it the
>ad copy is submitted on time.  Since the deadline is December 1, we need your
>faxes by November 25th, to give the office time to get it all together.
>
>Many thanks for your quick response!
>
>/Sheila
>
>P.S.  If you wish, you can email by 11/24.  /Sheila
>
>
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Barbara Berger				phone: 607-255-5291
Preservation Reformatting Librarian	fax:	607-254-7493
Cornell University Library			email:	beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx 
B32 Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853


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