That is the future, and it is ...

That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
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 Vartan Gregorian

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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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 Vartan Gregorian
The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
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 Vartan Gregorian
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
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In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.
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 Vartan Gregorian