Richard F. Thomas Quotes

One Of The Powerful Functions Of A Library - Any Library - Lies In Its Ability To Take Us Away From Worlds That Are Familiar And Comfortable And Into Ones Which We Can Neither Predict Nor Control, To Lead Us Down New Roads Whose Contours And Vistas Provide Us With New Perspectives. Sometimes, If We Are Fortunate, Those Other Worlds Turn Out To Have More Points Of Familiarity With Our Own Than We Had Thought. Sometimes We Make Connections Back To Familiar Territory And When We Have Returned, We Do So Supplied With New Perspectives, Which Enrich Our Lives As Scholars And Enhance Our Role As Teachers. Sometimes The Experience Takes Us Beyond Our Immediate Lives As Scholars And Teachers, And The Library Produces This Result Particularly When It Functions As The Storehouse Of Memory, A Treasury Whose Texts Connect Us Through Time To All Humanity.
[Browsing In The Western Stacks, Harvard Library Bulletin NS 6(3): 27-33, 1995]

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