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Libraries fight economic woes with information

May 22, 2008 - 6:29am — Blake

I've been seeing This Message more and more lately: "When the economy drops, people use libraries more," said State Librarian Annie Norman. She then offered this quote from Anne Herbert, in "The Whole Earth Catalog": "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."

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May 22, 2008 - 2:43pm — Anonymous (not verified)

time of no money....

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries" ? really? from "The Whole Earth Cataloge"? Citation please...

'cause I think it's from "Freewheeling Frank" of the FFFB graphix and the substitute for libraries was "dope".

Yes? No?

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May 22, 2008 - 4:09pm — sarahmae

Lots of references to the quote online

but only Wikipedia gave a citation:

# ^ attribution to "The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331. Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."[1]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Herbert

"Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds"

-Candide by Voltaire

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May 22, 2008 - 2:53pm — Blake

The Yale Book of Quotations

The Yale Book of Quotations says yes, it's in the catalog, and source was FFFB

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May 22, 2008 - 3:31pm — upnorthlibrarian

There was a library

There was a library awareness campaign (California? / LA?) that was similar....but I can't find that it was ever a S. Brand / WEC item.

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May 23, 2008 - 12:08pm — effinglibrarian

libraries = dope = funny

I love that someone didn't know the original quote and now "libraries" is a synonym for "dope." Drug humor is funny.

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