The University Libraries is the main library located on the campus of Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio.
The University Libraries supports the Bowling Green State University mission by: advancing scholarship, critical thinking, and creativity for a diverse community of users; building, organizing and maintaining focused collections for academic, creative and research interests; and teaching users to identify, locate, assess, and effectively use a full range of information resources.
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“It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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Across the whole country
Steep towns, flat towns, even New York,
And oceans and Europe & libraries & galleries
And the factories they make rubbers in”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“With sudden roar and aged pine-tree falls,—
One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree,
Declares the close of its green century.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Decency ... must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)