[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 1879-1955
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” Albert Einstein
Kategorie: Meinung
[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 1899-1985
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading — the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the respondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication. E.B. White
[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 1903-1973
“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” Pablo Neruda
[Videozitat] Kommentiert – 2013
“…who takes that one-book-a-day kid who’s going to be the 20 percent that reads 80 percent of the books, and when they walk in says, ‘Here’s a book you’ve got to read.’ If it’s not a librarian, who’s going to do it?” Cory Doctorow
Im folgenden Video, das mit dem Titel ‘We need to find (the solution) in partnership with our libraries’ plädiert der Autor und Blogger Cory Doctorow dafür eine Lösung für eine strategische Partnerschaft zwischen Bibliotheken und E-bookanbietern zu finden.
[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2014
Literatur ist die beste Art, ein anderes Land zu erkunden. Hätte ich zuerst ein Flugticket gekauft, um für drei Wochen nach Deutschland zu reisen, hätte ich Museen und Kirchen besucht, historische Stätten und schöne Landschaften gesehen. Ich hätte mit Leuten geredet, Fotos gemacht, und wäre wieder nachhause geflogen. Aber wenn ich einen guten deutschen Roman lese, werde ich in die Wohnzimmer eingeladen, die Kinderzimmer, selbst in die Schlafzimmer. Da kommt kein Tourist hin. Und deshalb ist die beste – und billigste – Art ein fremdes Land kennenzulernen: ein guter Roman. Amos Oz
[Bildzitat] Unkommentiert – 1947-2014
[Videozitat] Kommentiert – 2013
Die Autorin und Unternehmerin erzählt im folgenden Video wie “große und kleine Bibliotheken (…) ihre Zuflucht” wurden und äußert sich zur Bedeutung von Büchern und Bibliotheken.
[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2013
“The real challenge of using machines for transactive memory lies in the inscrutability of their mechanics. Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners’ minds work — where they’re strong, where they’re weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it’s harder with digital tools, particularly search engines. You can certainly learn how they work and develop a mental model of Google’s biases. … But search companies are for-profit firms. They guard their algorithms like crown jewels. This makes them different from previous forms of outboard memory. A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many. On top of this inscrutability, it’s hard to know what to trust in a world of self-publishing. To rely on networked digital knowledge, you need to look with skeptical eyes. It’s a skill that should be taught with the same urgency we devote to teaching math and writing.” Clive Thompson
[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2013
“So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first.” Malala Yousafzay
[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 2010
I myself would seem to be a prime example of a person who no longer needs the library. With a high-speed Internet line at home and a huge personal library thanks to many years of work as a book reviewer, why would I bother going to the library? Well, here’s why. I go there to do research[ – ]the Internet doesn’t have all you need to know. And, of course, it doesn’t have librarians, who in my experience know everything and are remarkably generous in sharing it.
I also go to the library to find out what’s going on (thanks to the most comprehensive bulletin board of events in the neighborhood) and the chance to run into my neighbors.
Jay Walljasper, All that we share, p. 148.