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CHAPTER IX
Business Librahies
The modern business library is largely a
development of the present century, and is
an evidence as well as an outgrowth of the
scientific spirit in industrial enterprise. Most
progressive firms to-day have special libraries
of some kind. Within the last three years
the number of business hbraries has more
than doubled; about 2500 such libraries are
now to be found in the United States. In
England their number, while much smaller,
is steadily increasing. The growing interest
in improved methods, in industrial research,
and in foreign markets, the widespread recog-
nition of the importance of training and edu-
cating employees in industrial ways and tech-
nical methods, and the direct assistance which
the library offers in developing intelligent
workmanship, mutual interest and in saving
time as well as mental and physical energy,
promises for it a still wider extension.
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