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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

Terms of office vary, the usual practice being
to divide the board of trustees into groups,
and retiring one group, or a specified number
of members, each year. In general, the terms
of office are so arranged as to secure stabil-
ity without stagnation.
The duties of trustees are to raise and man-
age the fimds of the library, to invest these
properly, to supervise expenditures, to deter-
mine the broad policy of the library, its rela-
tionship to those whom it serves as well as its
administrative policy as regards employees,
to super^dse broadly the choice and purchase
of books, to study the work of other Ubraries
with a view to modifying, correcting and im-
proving the work of their own library, to
select the librarian and aid him in every man-
ner in the performance of his duties. They
should give the librarian the benefit of their
business experience in organizing his staff
and in sohdng any major problems that may
be presented to them ; they should make the
community feel that the administration is
good and that the library is managed for the
benefit of those for whom it is established.
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