“If we keep chipping away at our libraries, we’ll be going backwards, betraying the dream of the founders who gave of themselves and followed their vision, laying the foundation to make the library a local place to further our educations, cultivate our minds and passions, and enrich the lives of ordinary people like me who have their own stories to live... and to tell.”—New Jersey novelist Kathleen Gerard, on the importance of saving libraries under budget pressures, in “The Many Chapters of Our Local Library,” The Record (Bergen County, NJ), May 22, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Quote of the Day (Kathleen Gerard, on Protecting Libraries)
“If we keep chipping away at our libraries, we’ll be going backwards, betraying the dream of the founders who gave of themselves and followed their vision, laying the foundation to make the library a local place to further our educations, cultivate our minds and passions, and enrich the lives of ordinary people like me who have their own stories to live... and to tell.”—New Jersey novelist Kathleen Gerard, on the importance of saving libraries under budget pressures, in “The Many Chapters of Our Local Library,” The Record (Bergen County, NJ), May 22, 2011
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