S. R. Ranganathan quotes

“If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!”
-- S. R. Ranganathan

Source : S. R. Ranganathan (2006). “The Five Laws of Library Science”, Ess Ess Publications

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“A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.”
-- S. R. Ranganathan

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“Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.”
-- S. R. Ranganathan

Source : S. R. Ranganathan (1950). “Colon Classification”

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“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”
-- S. R. Ranganathan

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“A library is a growing organism.”
-- S. R. Ranganathan

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“Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable”
-- S. R. Ranganathan

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“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”

“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”

“Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion”

“We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.”

“A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes”

“There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.”

Source : Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.336, Baen Publishing Enterprises

“There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.”

“If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.”

“You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.”