Sandy Berman--I heard about him and read about him while in library school 26 years ago. He was essentially the only practitioner or theoretician in librarianship addressing the relationship between library services and library users. Occasionally someone who is in tune with the people materializes--someone who can be nothing except active in the cause of humanity and humaneness; someone who disregards all received societal boundaries. Librarianship has had few such revolutionaries, and Sandy must be counted as a true revolutionary. Even as bombs destroy civilization in Yugoslavia, as society inches toward barbarism, revolutionaries like Sandy Berman remain our only link to a society that might someday be free of repression, poverty, homelessness, greed, exploitation.

Thank you, Sandy.

- A. Ralph Papakhian

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Sandy Berman taught me that you could break the rules and still be a cataloger.

- Katia Roberto

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