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of the company are serving, can it be recog-
nized as a special library. Therefore it does
not wait for inquiries to come to it before it
becomes active. It initiates inquiries, and
when it has the information it wants, it places
it immediately before the person or persons
who will profit by it, in the form in which it
has come, as a memorandum, as a report or
in such other manner as it deems best to
achieve a desired result.
It will be seen therefore that the special
hbrary differs from the pubhc library in a
number of important respects. Dr. C. C.
Williamson, of the New York Pubhc
Library, touches on one of these in the fol-
lowing words
"
The special library is an efficient, up-to-
date, reasonably complete, collection of the
literature of a particular subject, including
not only books but chppings, pamphlets,
articles, reports, etc., all so completely in-
dexed and classified that the latest and best
data are available, without the difficulties and
delays that are more or less inevitable in a
large public library.
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