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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

workers have been formed in such cities as
New York, Baltimore and Boston, is direct
evidence that the situation demands atten-
tion. Labor turnover has in many libraries
been excessively high and has resulted in
much economic loss ; practically no attention
has been paid to this phase. Librarians of
the past have been so absorbed in the techni-
cal problems of management and in making
the library a living, vital force in the com-
munity, that the human engineering problem
arising out of the employment relation has
of necessity come in for only secondary con-
sideration. Certainly in the larger libraries
this situation is rapidly changing, but it is
evident that librarians, like other managers,
must study and train themselves for handling
the problems of employment.

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