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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

the influenza epidemic. The libraries are the
logical, as well as the acceptable, places for
the foreign-speaking people to turn for infor-
mation, and the majority of libraries in
Massachusetts are equipped to realize their
expectation." The Southbridge, Mass.,
Public Library reports that it is cooperating
closely with employers in Americanization
"
work in factories. *A List of Books About
America,' was published and distributed
through the factories and used not only by
the Albanians, Greeks and Poles but by the
French Canadians, many of whom had lived
here for years and taken no interest in any-
thing American. 'Now, they are among the
most eager students of the English language
and American institutions."
Recognition of the service of the public
library to the immigrant and alien, and real-
ization of the possibilities of wider service
and development in this direction, have led
the American Library Association in its En-
larged Program to plan in cooperation with
schools and other organizations, through ex-
hibits and the foreign language press to
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