[LM_NET] TAR: Quote?? Libraries and civilization

[Julie Dahlhauser <JulDahl@AOL.COM>]

This is a fairly insignificant request, but I'm trying to find a quote  about 
libraries that I thought I'd read here.
 
It was something about how a civilization or society can be judged by the  
way it treats its libraries, possibly by Franklin (or even Teddy) Roosevelt?? Or 
 maybe it was Madonna or Michael Jackson for all I can remember. Sorry to be 
so  vague.
 
I have searched Bartlett's and several online sources, finding whole  
websites devoted to quotes about libraries and reading. But since I don't  remember 
the wording or the author, I don't have any good keywords with which to  search.
 
I'm hoping someone out there has a brain less softened by the heat than  
mine, and I'm making this request as part of a promise to myself and to all that  
I will do my part this year to advocate for school libraries. If I can find 
the  quote, it will be my mantra for the coming year.
 
Thanks and stay cool,
 
Julie  Dahlhauser, librarian
Anderson Early Childhood Center
620 West Main  Street
Brownsville, Tennessee USA  38012

JulDahl@aol.com
dahlhauserj@k12tn.net

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