Library and Information Science

💡 "The library is the heart of all the university’s work; directly so as regards its research work and indirectly as regards its educational work, which derives its life from research...Both for humanistic and scientific studies a first-class library is essential in a university.’" - Radha Krishnan University Education Commission (1948-1949)

💡 "Demand for books should be differentiated according to its value, volume, and variety.’" - L.R. McColvin (1896-1976) 

💡 "’We need libraries founded by the people, supported by the people, enjoyed by the people’." - William Ewart (1798-1869).

💡 "There is no greater sin than the omission of an index’." - E.B. Osborn. 153.

💡 "’It should be our endeavour to locate at least one library in every village in the country. The use of libraries should not be limited to a few scholars or Pandits but the mass of people must begin to read’." - Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.

💡 "Students were the body of the university, the administration was, of course, the head, the teachers were the soul and the library the heart’." - Dr. C.D. Deshmukh.

💡 "The shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are reposed’." - Francis Bacon. 

💡 "‘Be minute, be minute, be most minute’." - S.R. Ranganathan. 

💡 "’Be minute, be minute, be not too minute’." - C.A. Cutter. 

💡 "’A little learning is a dangerous thing!’" - Alexander Pope. 

💡 "‘A library should not be the shrine for worship but should be the delivery room for birth of new ideas’." - Socrates. 

💡 "Bliss is like the bell-ringer who is up early to call others to church’." - W.C. Berwick Sayers.

💡 "’There are few wild beasts more to be dread than a talking man having nothing to say’." - Jonathan Swift. 

💡 "‘A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent’." - Logan Pearsall Smith. 

💡 "‘The books that help you most, are those which make you think the most’." - Theodore Parker. 

💡 "‘Book classification is a mechanical time-saving operation for the discovery of knowledge in literature. Books are our theme: and the discovery of knowledge in books by the shortest route our aim and object’." - Wyndham Hulme.

💡 "‘Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind…’" - Joseph Addison.

💡 "’Best books in the largest number at the least cost’." - Melvil Dewey.