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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. - Saul Bellow.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Chistmas every day. - Jean Fritz

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Joge Luis Borges

Greer, Germaine. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,...

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. - Tuchman, Barbara. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

...do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries , public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?..Ruskin, John. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

...to them when they're 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? Lebowitz, Fran. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned. . . . A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas. - Norman Cousins, ALA Bulletin (October, 1954)

I went to the library. They gave you books for nothing. You had to bring them back, but when you did, they let you take others. - Barbara Cohen, Gooseberries to Oranges, 1982.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite

If we would get our parents to read to their preschool children fifteen minutes a day, we could revolutionize the schools. - Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, 1981.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books ...Children learn to read being in the presence of books. - Heinrich Mann, 1871-1950

for newly freed slaves, going to school, learning to read and write, were essential steps in the process of freedom. - James W. Fraser

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some are to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon. Essays 1625

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discoverd there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi - Oprah Winfrey

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that here and now is all there is. - Allan Bloom. The Closing of the American Mind. 1987.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch. - James Baldwin

The memory of having been read to is a solace one carries through adulthood. It can wash over a multitude of parental sins. - Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence, The Boys I Didn't Kiss, 1990

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Atwood H. Townsend

Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes. - Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, 1956.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter 1753

All that mankind has done, throught, gained or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. - Thomas Carlyle

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreable. - Augustine Birrell

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. - Richard McKenna

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. - Paula Fox

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Cooley, Mason. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. ATTRIBUTION:Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. .

Reading civilized the inner life.- Cooley, Mason. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.

Reading maketh a full man - Bacon, Francis. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.

To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books , It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment - Lebowitz, Fran. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my fee: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything. - Benjamin Carson, US surgeon and author of Gifted Hands.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted. - Beverly Cleary, A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoire

Books have been [Oprah Winfrey's] friends for as long as she can remember, sometims her only friends. And, she says, they made her who she is today. - Marilyn Johnson, Life magazine, Sept., 1997

Encyclopedia Brown] read more books than anyone in Idaville, and he never forto a fact. His pals said he was like a library and a computer rolled into one, and more user-friendly. - Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown and The Case of the Disgusting Sneakers

My most prized posession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library - Bill Russell - basketball player

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. - Frederic Douglass, Escape from Slavery.

"Books offer something more than content - They offer continuity of experience, and reading offers a unique process. Readig as a means of processing information is unique to human experience. I would put reading right up there with the opposable thumb, Michelangelo, and milk chocolate in the order of evolutionary milestones. Books establish and reinforce a perception of the world that has gone on for six thousand yuears. Programming our brains to print is necessary to establishing the continuty of our civilization." E. L. Konegsburg. Talk Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-ups (New York: Atheneum, 1995) p. 167.

"The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the sam thing. It is very resky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedome. Those are magnificent, wonderfully, unsafe things." - Lois Lowry "Newbery Medal Acceptance" The Horn Book Magazine 70, no. 4 (July/August, 1994) 422.

"I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past." - E L. Konigsburg. Talk Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-ups (New York: Atheneum, 1995), p. 172.

"Never in the history of the world has there been so much wonderful childrens and young adult literature. Too bad most California kids miss out when we don't stock their school and public libraries. Is your child getting a fair share?" - David V. Loertscher

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. - Walter Savage Landor

It is possible that our reading, if so be we read wisely, may save us to a certain extent from some of the seriouwsw forms of trouble; or if we get into trouble, as we most certainly shall, may teach us how to come out of it decently. - Rudyard Kipling

When others fail him, the wise man looks to the sure companionship of books. - Andrew Lang

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. Joyce Carol Oates

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. Daniel J. Boorstin

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives . . . in childhood all books are books of divination, telling us about the future, and like the fortune-teller who sees a long journey in the cards or death by water, they influence the future. I suppose that is why books excited us so much. What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation of those first fourteen years? - Graham Greene, from The Lost Childhood and Other Essays

Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one. - Jim Trelease. The New Read-Aloud Handbook, p. 9

Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN. - Jim Trelease. The New Read-Aloud Handbook, p. 14

Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt. - Jim Trelease. The New Read-Aloud Handbook, p. 18

Children who are not spoken to by live and responsive adults will not learn to speak properly. Children who are not answered will stop asking questions. They will become incurious. And children who are not told stories and who are not read to will have few reasons for wanting to learn to read. - Gail E. Haley, 1971 Caldecott Medal acceptance speech.

Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; someone has to show them the way. - Orville Prescott, from A Father Reads to His Children.

I have one of Frank Packard's Gray Seal novels put away in my basement, alogn with copies of about six Tom Swift books, and all the Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and John Carter of Mars books. Not a classic among them. And yet, if I aam not part jungle hero, Martian adventurer, cohort of L. Frank Baum and friend to Tom Swift, I am nothing. Shakespeare was to come later, with his friend G. B. Shaw. But my love of them was nothing to the mad love I had for Tanto the elephant or Kala the Ape. Oh, keeper of the Gray Seal, where are you now that we need you? - Ray Bradbury

- From: Kan, Katharine L. Sizzling Summer Reading Programs for Young Adults. American Library Association , 1998. p. 6

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. -James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim." Linton Weeks, Washington Post

Will your child be ready for college? They won't without a strong school library. - David V. Loertscher

Staffing school libraries with only techs or volunteers is like trying to staff a hospital with only nurses and pink stripers . - David V. Loertscher

In California in 2002, two new school libraries costing $2million were opened. One was staffed by a credentialed library media teacher - the other by a tech. Guess which one is contributing to achievement and is worth the $2million investment? - David V. Loertscher

Removing funding from technology now is like:

Buying a BMW and leaving it unlocked with the keys inside.
Putting your college savings in the bank and selling the ATM password on eBay to the lowest bidder.
Graduating from Med school and going to work at the gas station.
Removing funding from technology now might:
Violate federal access requirements.
Remove our ability to address standards.
Cripple the Mission and Vision of Focused On the Future, the OCDE Technology Plan, and our ability to deliver a complete education.
Block our ability to contribute to and cooperate with other educational agencies in joint ventures, research studies, assessment and reporting processes.

Information technology is more than just traditional computers: it includes telecommunications, office systems, industrial automation, robotics, and consumer products. The educational aspects of this technology impact the design, use and influence of information in all its forms. That influence affects a variety of disciplines, including psychology, cognitive science, computer science, ergonomics, sociology, and management education and training. IT knowledge creates the future through researchers, system designers, personnel specialists, and planners.

In a knowledge-driven era, higher education is essential and information technologies, resources, and services enrich your educational experience.

Information technologies are pervasive and are being woven throughout the fabric of our daily lives. Basic skills with computers, networks, and electronic information resources are expected in virtually all academic disciplines.

Basic literacy with the technology tools of the modern office, library, school, or other place of work is now as important to your future as the other skills of critical thinking and analysis that higher education will demand.

Your ability to choose a major -- and ultimately your career choice -- will depend on your school's information technology environment.

How or if a school maintains the currency of its equipment and services will determine how this institution will meet your educational goals as you progress towards your diploma.

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The following notes are from the web site:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra/central.html

Information technology is central to our society -- economically and socially. During the past fifty years, the firms that provide our computers, communications technology, and information services, have become a vitally important underpinning to our economy and to our society -- both in terms of their own economic strength, and in terms of their productivity impacts on other industry sectors, from automobile and aircraft manufacturing, to pharmaceutical research, to overnight package delivery services.

To an increasing degree, information technology is becoming so embedded in everyday applications that it is becoming nearly invisible, hence easy to take for granted. Cellular telephones, which have become so common over the past few years, depend on highly sophisticated computing and communication technology. Advanced processors and algorithms are integral to medical diagnostic devices such as CAT scanners. Embedded microprocessors are essential components in compact disc players, video cameras, automobiles, and microwave ovens. Consumers are protected against possible fraudulent use of credit cards by systems that infer information about personal usage patterns.

The development of the National Information Infrastructure, so much in the news lately, has really just begun. With proper investment, the NII holds the promise of greatly amplifying the already enormous impacts of information technology. It will extend to rural America the benefits that urban dwellers take for granted in areas such as health care, libraries, government information, cultural resources, and entertainment. It will enhance the way scientists and engineers perform the research that is so important to our nation as a whole. It will revolutionize manufacturing and commerce, and transform education.

Retaining America's leadership in information technology is vital to the nation -- to our security, to our economic competitiveness, to our employment, and to the health and well-being of our citizenry.

End of Richard Moore's technology notes.

From: Cullinan, Bernice E. Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love to Read. Scholastic, 2000, p. 8

When you read to your children, you'll reap some unexpected bonuses. Your children will:

From: Cullinan, Bernice E. Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love to Read. Scholastic, 2000, p. 52-53, 122-23

From: Stephen Krashen The Power of Reading: Insights From the Research. Libraries Unlimited, 1993.