"Librarians are literary semi-precious stones, who think they are crown jewels. **Bibliothekare sind literarische Halbedelsteine, die sich für Kronjuwelen halten."
— Libraries

January 1, 1970

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Hanns-Hermann Kersten: quoted in Gottfried Rost, Der Bibliothekar: Schatzkämmerer oder Futterknecht? (Vienna, 1990), p. 71.