The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
About Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth “Melvil” Deweywas an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief librarian at Columbia University. He was also a founding member of the American Library Association.