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Melvil Dewey
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“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”
Melvil Dewey (1851–1931) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Relation of the State to the Public Library", (1889)
“The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds.”
Melvil Dewey (1851–1931) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Field and Future of Traveling Libraries". Home Education Department. Bulletin. State University of New York (1901), (40).