"One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street."

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A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.

— S. R. Ranganathan