Libraries

This is a picture of my community borrower's permit from U of I. I covered my name up for privacy reasons. 

Community Borrower's Permits:

Users not affiliated with the University may, under some circumstances, be permitted to check materials out of the Libraries. Application for a borrower's permit may be made at Main Library Circulation Services or any university library. Borrower’s permits, in most circumstances, will be issued to Iowa residents showing proof of residency and a picture ID (such as a current Iowa drivers license).” Website

 “One cannot contemplate libraries . . . without recalling the civilization-long battle for the freedom of the human spirit.” Virgil Hancher

Encyclopedia's  & information retrieval 

I owned a complete collection of 

Encyclopedia Britannica's 1994  (15th edition). I was reading how  autodidacts should own a set encyclopedias and now I do I got it from a library book sale room its about 35 books overall I paid a grand total of... $20!!!

DuckDuckGo.com is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the "filter bubble" of personalized search results. 

917-ASK-NYPL,Every day, except Sundays and holidays, between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm EST, anyone, of any age, from anywhere in the world can telephone 917-275-6975 and ask a question. The library staff will not answer crossword or contest questions, do children's homework, or answer philosophical speculations. Website 

Libraries Quotes

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury 

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read and when and how. –Doris Lessing

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. –Frank Zappa

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. –Alan M. Dershowitz

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. 

Andrew Carnegie

A library book...is not, then, an article of mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, is their only capital. Thomas Jefferson

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.  ― Ray Bradbury

Don't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read. ― Neil Gaiman

Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury