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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

or for home borrowing with a minimum
of restriction. It has gone fm-ther and
through advertising in newspapers, street
ears and hotels, through publication of attrac-
tive reading lists, display of new books or
books of special interest, and through
planned publicity campaigns of various kinds
has sought to interest its public, inviting it to
come, to see and to read. Tliis aggressive
effort to bring book and reader together has
been characteristic of the American pubhc
hbrary as of no other.
Long ago Justin Winsor pointed out that
" Books may be accumulated and guarded,
and the result is sometimes called a library;
but if books are made to help and spur men
on in their own daily work, the library be-
comes a vital influence; the prison is turned
into a workshop."
The public library has not, however, been
satisfied with serving simply as a reading
center. It has recognized its opportunity as
a community information service station
and has taken its place side by side with other
social service agencies with the sole thought
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