Frances Clarke Sayers - The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, r

The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love so overwhelming that it engulfs community after community and makes the culture of our time distinctive, individual, creative and truly of the spirit.

- Frances Clarke Sayers

source: Frances Clarke Sayers (1950). “The Belligerent Profession: An Address Delivered as the Second in the William Warner Bishop Lectureship Series at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1948”

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