The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love so overwhelming that it engulfs community after community and makes the culture of our time distinctive, individual, creative and truly of the spirit.
Frances Clarke Sayers (1950). “The Belligerent Profession: An Address Delivered as the Second in the William Warner Bishop Lectureship Series at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1948”
