"The fundamental idea of the library must change. The nineteenth-century idea of the library as the embalming of dead genius and the twentieth-century idea of the library as the repository for second-hand knowledge must give way to the idea of the library as the owner and the librarian as the manager of first-hand knowledge".
Quelle: Nina W. Matheson: "The idea of the library in the twenty-first century". In: Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 83 (1995) 1, S. 1 – 7 [online bei Pubmed]