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 the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“riding flatcars to Fresno,
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)
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Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green & pleasant Land.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
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—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)