Happy New Year - Next Friends meeting 1/18

Happy New Year from the Friends of the Carroll Gardens Library!  We're looking forward to new projects and activities in 2012.

Our next general meeting is Wednesday, January 18 at 6:30 downstairs at the library, 396 Clinton Street at Union. Everyone is invited to share your energy and ideas.

And now, quotes of the week (and a great deal of facial hair)

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. ”
― Frank Zappa
(Friends of the Carroll Gardens Library does not advocate dropping out of school, but does advocate educating yourself at the library)

“Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.”
― Leo Tolstoy

 

  “I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
― Isaac Asimov