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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP
the State library brings such quick and rich
results in grateful appreciation " is the report
of the New York State Department of Edu-
cation. The work with the blind is receiving
still further impetus from the efforts of the
American Library Association which in co-
operation with other agencies is planning to
publish an increased number of books for
the blind in uniform type.
A word should be said also about the *' sun-
shine " work of the public libraries with the
sick, the crippled and the disabled. Books
and magazines are sent to hospitals and are
frequently distributed by a library attendant.
Here again the library reaches out to the
reader where the reader cannot come to it.
Most widely known is the work of the pub-
lic libraries with children. Children's rooms
are now to be found in all the larger libraries.
A good children's library will have a supply
of readers, picture books, fairy tales, travel
and nature books, histories, biographies,
books of good poetry, as well as editions of
literary masterpieces edited for children.
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Each of these has a definite place primers
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