The Library's role in society is to collect, organize, and provide access to recorded human knowledge and to educate and assist readers in its retrieval and evaluation. The ethical cornerstones of librarianship are intellectual freedom, equal access, impartiality, and privacy. The Library is essential to the success of democracy.

And librarians?
 

 

Famous Librarians Casanova was a Librarian Immanuel Kant David Hume Friedrich Engels Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz Benjamin Franklin Mao Tse-Tung Golda Meir J. Edgar Hoover Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Brothers Grimm Jorge Luis Borges August Strindberg Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hector Berlioz and of course, Casanova Great Librarian-Poets by Roth Publishing Melvil Dewey is probably the only librarian famous for being a librarian.

Famous Fictional Librarians Batgirl was a Librarian* Bibliomysteries Librarians in mysteries by Marsha McCurley Librarians in the Movies by Martin Raish Librarians in the Comics Comic Books | Comic Strips by Steven M. Bergson       * Phrase coined by Alison Hall

 

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