ALT CARBONDALE Route 4 and all routes from CHAMPAIGN and EDWARDSVILLE hubs cancelled. Mon. 1/22. Text & Email Alerts. Text CARBONDALE, CHAMPAIGN, or EDWARDSVILLE to 84483.

ALT Image text: "To be a librarian is not to be neutral or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community." —R. David Lankes

ALT Image text: "I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud." —Nnedi Okorafor

ALT Image text: "It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." —James Baldwin

ALT Image text: "A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." —Charles Baudelaire

ALT Image text: “It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.” — Jarrett J. Krosoczka

ALT Image text: “I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.” — Neil Gaiman

ALT Image text: "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." —Potter Stewart

ALT Image text: "It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." —John Waters