The five laws of library science

Books are for use

Every reader his [or her] book

Every book its reader

Save the reader time

The library is a growing organism

S. R. Ranganathan

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark in any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Germaine Greer