Arthur Curley Professions : Librarian Born : January 22, 1938 Died : March 31, 1998 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Arthur Curley If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed? Arthur Curley information-is-power powerful ill Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . . Arthur Curley democracy political organization When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society. Arthur Curley rights opportunity people Similar Authors Frances Clarke Sayers librarian Elizabeth Gould Davis librarian Melvil Dewey librarian Nancy Pearl librarian Judith Krug librarian John Shaw Billings librarian All Authors
