Heinlein on Librarians

Librarians are important. Robert Heinlein, that Mozart of science fiction, once postulated that librarians of the future would become the most essential people in the galaxy, for only they, because of their special skills, would have the ability to gather, organize, and provide access to the infinitely scattered keys to wisdom. (Forbes 1998, 211).

Forbes, D. H. (1998). Destination library. In James V. Carmichael, Jr. (Ed.). Daring to find our names: The search for lesbigay library history. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.