A Librarian Looks at Books

Abstract

For more than forty years I have looked at books. I have regarded them as tools of our trade and as the “sweet sound that breathes o'er a bed of violets”. I have shelved them, carried them and pushed them about on trucks that move crabwise across a polished floor. For more than thirty years now I have moved them out of winter quarters into permanent habitations and often have I looked upon them with undying hatred. It doesn't last. It is like a tiff with one well loved, it is forgotten in five minutes, and we are back to where we started.

Citation

O'LEARY, J.G. (1962), "A Librarian Looks at Books", Library Review, Vol. 18 No. 8, pp. 589-592. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012374