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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

library. Books must be selected, bought and
made accessible; records of various kinds
must be kept, methods learned or thought out
and applied; problems of shelving, listing,
classification, cataloging, indexing, and filing
must be met ; bibliographies and reading lists
must be prepared and questions of various
kinds answered. In addition there are prob-
lems of maintenance and routine—equip-
ment to be purchased, building questions to
be studied, meetings of library committees or
boards of trustees to be arranged, funds to
be raised or invested, methods for attracting
readers to be devised and proper service given
them when they come. Furthermore, there
are the many questions arising out of the
emplojTnent and proper management of a
staff. These items are, however, only sug-
gestive and the list might be much extended,
but they serve to indicate the wide variety,
intricacy, and technical nature of the prob-
lems encountered.
For librarianship is not a dead work. It
calls for executive ability, and for the display
of those qualities that make for success in
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