For All the Dr. Who fans

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Russell T. Davies, Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”

We are celebrating Thomas Hart Benton’s 125^th Birthday on 4/15/2014.  Here’s what he wrote in 1940, “Now for some fatherly advice while you’re there make use of the libraries...”

“Someone said to me, these libraries aren’t important anymore, because you can get it all online. But you can’t. If you Google an artist and Google the images, you get no information — you don’t get where the painting is, you don’t get the medium, you don’t get the sizes, you don’t get the provenance. So these libraries are really important.”

-Wild and crazy guy, Mr. Steve Martin

*taken from his interview in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/books/18martin.html?_r=0

I don't remember who used this one, but my favorite one is:

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx

Cindy

> Over years of reading ARLIS-L I have enjoyed the quotes and maxims that
> some of us attach to our email signatures. As an example, for some reason
> Ray Ann Lockard's has stuck in my mind:
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> Jonathan Franklin
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