"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library."

     "No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library.  Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, California are great citadels of truth and freedom, where books and people and ideas are nobly joined.  When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."

     Lawrence Clark Powell, "The heart of a university:  its library:  'A sacred place where the world's ideas are concentrated,'" University bulletin:  a weekly bulletin for the staff of the University of California 5, no. 26 (February 11, 1947), 127 (126-127).