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Quote by Charles Medawar
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdl

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. – Charles Medawar

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Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance. – Author Unknown

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A word also as to the cost of carriage: This is at present so high, whether the means be mail or express, that we may properly set it down as the chief obstacle to the free development of inter-library loans. – William Warner Bishop, “Inter-Library Loans,” 1909

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