The Arts, 2009 p. 56
Teachers of the arts are also encouraged to collaborate with both local librarians and teacher-librarians on collecting digital, print, and visual resources for arts projects (e.g., storybooks on a theme or topic to inspire role play, picture books for artistic inspiration, culture-specific and large-format image collections, informational and performance videos).
Librarians may also be able to assist in accessing a variety of online resources and collections
(e.g., professional articles, image galleries, videos).
From Language, 2006 p. 30
The school library program supports student success across the language curriculum by encouraging students to read widely, teaching them to read for understanding and enjoyment, and helping them to improve their research skills and to use information gathered through research effectively.
The school library program plays a key role in the development of information literacy and research skills. In collaboration with classroom or content-area teachers, teacher- librarians develop, teach, and provide students with authentic information and research tasks that foster learning
From Social Studies, History and Geography, 2004 p. 18
In all grades in social studies,history,and geography,students will develop their ability to ask questions and to plan investigations to answer those questions.They need to learn a variety of research methods in order to carry out their investigations,and to know which methods to use in a particular inquiry. Students need to learn how to locate relevant information from a variety of sources,such as books,newspapers, fi eld studies and interviews,climate maps,aerial photographs and satellite images,diagrams and charts,and electronic sources (e.g.,videos, CD-ROMs,the Internet).As they advance through the grades,students will be expected to use these sources with increasing sophistication.They will also be expected to distinguish between primary and secondary sources,to determine their validity and relevance,and to use them in appropriate ways.
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Schools with inviting libraries that have well-stocked shelves and knowledgeable and active librarians also have students who are more likely to score higher on tests, according to a study released last week by Mansfield
University in the U.S., the latest in a long line of research on the subject.

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"In elementary schools with library staff, scores are actually higher on EQAO tests," said Kidder. Schools with trained library staff are more likely to have a higher proportion of Grade 6 students who attain Level 3 or higher on reading tests. Schools without trained library staff tend to have lower achievement on reading tests in both grades 3 and 6.
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The impact of a robust school library is almost seven per cent higher than the impact of socio-economic factors.
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http://www.accessola2.com/superconference2007/thurs/413/quotes.pdf
http://www.consultpivotal.com/quotes_lib.htm
"Libraries without librarians are just rooms full of books;
Data online and digital books are just a mass of text;
Teacher-Librarians make sense of it all."
"In the non-stop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."
~ Linton Weeks, Washington Post
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity" - Abraham Lincoln
“A dollar spent in the library is a dollar spent on every child in the school”(unknown)
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of
Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Choruses from The Rock
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
--Frederick Douglass

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.
--Barack Obama
I read because one life isn't enough.
--Richard Peck
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairly tales.
If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein
http://archive.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm
Information is the currency of democracy. — Thomas JEFFERSON (1743-1826) http://oasl.info/Library%20Media%20Quotes.htm
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite
"The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world." Rita Dove
"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better." Sidney Sheldon
Finding information is easy; finding knowledge is more difficult."
I READ: because one life isn't enough, and in the pages of a book I can be anybody. Richard Peck

Famous Library and Librarian Quotes & Quotations http://www.usefulinformation.info/quotations/library_quotes.html#book_quotes
"Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man." Thomas Fuller
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain
The top one is mine (the first line has been around anonymously for years, I added the next two lines).
"Libraries without librarians are just rooms full of books;
Digital books and data online are just a mass of text;
Teacher-Librarians make sense of it all.
" L.J.Dempster
"In the non-stop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."
~ Linton Weeks, Washington Post
http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/author.htm
"It's no use going to school unless the library is your final destination." Ray Bradbury.
"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert

http://www.bartleby.com/73/486.html
"It's no use going to school unless the library is your final destination." -- Ray Bradbury.
'No entertainment is so cheap as reading;nor any pleasure so lasting' -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not.
— Epistolae Morale
Lucius Annaeus SENECA (3 B.C.-65 A.D.)
Library
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
— Light Armour.
McGraw-Hill, 1954.
Richard ARMOUR
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- where it is written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out. - Charles F. Kettering
Knowledge is free at the library . Just bring your own container. – Unknown
If you keep doing what what you always did, you'll keep getting what you always got.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -
Mark Twain
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. - Thomas Hobbes
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/allegrow/libraryq.htm

"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." J. Donald Adams
Library
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
— Light Armour. McGraw-Hill, 1954.
Richard Armour
"Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries.
Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries."
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)
"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.
Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
— I, Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Isaac Asimov
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
"A little library growing each year is an honorable part of a man's history."
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
"Libraries are not made, they grow."
Augustine Birrell (1850-1933)

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life."
— Cited in Writer's Digest, February 1976, p25
Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920- )
"When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began."
Rita Mae Brown
"A great library contains the diary of the human race."
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration."
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
"The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books....America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries."
Terence Cooke (1921-1983)
"The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."
— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475
Norman Cousins (1915- )
"The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all the books are scattered on the floor." D.C. Denison
"The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian was a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian is in the highest sense a teacher, and a reader is a workman among his tools." Melvil Dewey (1851-1931)

"A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart." Georges Duhamel (1884-1966)
"Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"When I… discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day." Jean Fritz
"He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, all of admirable flavour."
William Godwin (1756-1836)
"The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without cr edentials…You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read." Harry Golden (1902-1981)
"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed." Germaine Greer (1939 -)
"My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard."
Judah Ha-Levi (Spanish Poet, Physician)
"The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library,is to look at his books. One gets the notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves."
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table. VIII.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education."
Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
"My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve."
— Letter to George Johnson, January 1824.
Joseph Howe (1804-1873)

"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest." Lady Bird Johnson (1912- )
"No place offers a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"The libraries have become my candy store." Juliana Kimball
"What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard." — Essays of Elia. Oxford in the Vacation Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
"No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy." John Alfred Landford (1823-1903)
"The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
"What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." Archibald MacLeish
"In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge."
— Cited in American Libraries, July/August 1980, p.411-412
Norman Mailer (1923- )
For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let
Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.
— Curse Against Book Stealers
Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona

"A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet."
Samuel Niger (1883-1956)
"Believers and doers are what we need -- faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites."
— A Passion for Books
Lawrence Clark Powell (1906- )
"[The library] is like a place of sacredness. If we were fools at one time, perhaps we will not be fools tomorrow, if we study."
Chief Tom Porter
Books are for use.
Books are for all; or Every reader his book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
A library is a growing organism.
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972)
"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what?
All you have to do is go to the library." Jim Rohn
"A library should be like a pair of open arms." Roger Rosenblatt
"Since my family did not own many books or have the money for a child to buy them, it was good to know that solely by virtue of my municipal citizenship I had access to any book I wanted... from the branch library I could walk to in my neighborhood." Philip Roth (b.1933)
"The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries." — Cosmos Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"A library is thought in cold storage." Herbert Samuel
"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of
Greek and poets." B. K. Sandwell

"A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge! It blossoms through the year!" Richard B. Sheridan (1751-1816)
"I go into my library and history rolls before me." Alexander Smith (1830-1867)
"If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itself with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries." Irving Stone (1903-1989)
"Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn." Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I've traveled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books."
Unknown
"If none but true and useful things were recorded, our immense historical libraries would be reduced to a very narrow compass; but we should know more and know it better." Voltaire
(1694-1778)
"A cool of books will sometime lead the mind to libraries of a hot afternoon, if books can be found cool to the sense to lead the mind away".
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) 'The library'
"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

My favorite is by Frederick Douglass: "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
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Mark Twain's: The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky. My pile of books are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. Arnold Lobel
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I like using quotes from books i.e.
"I just want to get to the library." Hermione, Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire p.198
"Books have to be heavy, because the whole world is in them." Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
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"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson
This is my own. I have it written in three big posters across the back
Wall of my elementary library.
The first poster reads:
"Magic means to change"
The second poster reads:
"Reading changes lives"
The third poster reads:
"Reading is Magic!"

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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."-- Ray Bradbury
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"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled - "This could change your Life" (Helen Exley)
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Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
Mason Cooley
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The more you read, the more you know.
The more you know, the smarter you grow.
The smarter you grow, the stronger your voice, when speaking your mind or making your choice.
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Jefferson: I cannot live without books.
There are a couple of books published with quotes from famous people
(and not so famous) on books and reading.
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Walt Disney:
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on

Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
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Harper Lee: "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
************************** wrote recently about the need to come up with some Limericks appropriate for the library and National Library Week. We are planning on having Poetry all the month of April and wanted to do limericks the week before April vacation/National Library Week to get kids' participation in answering the riddles within. Our prizes are books that have been donated to the collection and haven't been used.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to send us input...if anyone else out there gets inspired to write more, please send them along:-)
Enjoy!
If perchance you seek good information
'Bout a topic of some obscure nation
Then you'd best take a look
In a reference book
Or use 900s in your Circulation
So much on the 'Net is just hooey
And folks creating it might have a loose screw-y

So when the facts need a'knowing
The best place for going
Is right to your library and ... Dewey
There once was a lady so merry
Who loved books from fiction to fairy
She read every one
Until she was done
And returned them all to the library
Said a certain young student from Stow:
"When in doubt, to the 'Net I will go!"
He forsook all the books, finally crying "Gadzooks!
I can't find what I need to know!"
A happy young lady named Mary wanted all of the books she could carry.
"Books and info I'll get, and some time on the 'Net...
And it's all for free at the Library!"
--Jody Newman Library Aide, retired Stow MA n ewjody@comcast.net
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Share your knowledge. It is the way to live forever.