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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

large library, having experienced the diffi-
culty of keeping present departments ade-
quately manned, hesitates to launch new
features which will require additional ex-
pert direction.
Yet the need and opportunity for library
extension probably never were so great.
There are many thousands of young men
who entered the army at high school or col-
lege age who will not return to the class-
room, but who will read and study if books
are made easily available. Many of them
acquired or developed a reading habit in the
camp libraries.
Men and women everywhere, because of
the changing world conditions, are inter-
ested as never before in world problems, in
history, government, pohtics and sociology.
The foreign-born population, always inter-
ested, is now being stimulated by the Amer-
icanization movement in all its phases to
learn not only the English language, but
something of American political, social and
cultural ideals, history and traditions.
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