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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

Business libraries have been instituted to
aid either the company executives or to serve
the rank and file ; their primary purpose has
been to organize the wealth of printed and
other informational matter relating to the
business or the industry, so that it might all
be available as an effective aid or tool in daily
work. The business executive or manager of
to-day must, if he hopes to succeed, know
not only the technical details of his own busi-
ness. He must know of the general develop-
ments in his industry and must have also a
respectable familiarity with many other mat-
ters. He must know something of account-
ing and financing and a good deal of
production and marketing. Moreover, busi-
ness procedure is continually becoming more
and more scientific. In order that the execu-
tive may avail himself of the gains which im-
proved methods make possible, and increase
the prosperity of the business, he is under
continued necessity of keeping informed of
what is going on. Furthermore, to meet suc-
cessfully the competition of other firms his
methods must be at least as good as theirs,
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