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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

The selection of books is of little avail if
proper methods in ordering and subsequent
care are not pursued. In many libraries an
order-record, noting outstanding orders, and
an accession-record, noting chronologically
books in order of receipt, are kept. The
accession-record gives the complete record of
a book from the time of its receipt in the
library to the time of its withdrawal; such
a record gives also the number of volumes in
any library.
In order that the use of books may be
facilitated, they must be grouped in some
systematic manner. Such classification is
best accomplished by bringing books on the
same or similar subjects together. Were
books arranged simply in accordance with
their order of accession or receipt, there
would be no definite relation among them.
To use them would require scanning every
shelf. To separate books, papers or other
library materials, such as pamphlets, news-
paper clippings, manuscripts or maps,
according to their likeness or unlikeness, is
obviously to take the first step to ease and
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