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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

and readers to supplement the work of the
school, picture books to appeal to the eye, to
set standards of taste and fix values in appre-
ciation, fairy tales, travel and nature books
to stimulate the imagination and widen men-
tal horizons, histories and biographies for
their influence on character, and poetry and
the classics to give an early acquaintance
with the best in literature.
In hbrary work with childi'en the aim is to
acquaint them with the better books, to teach
them how to use these intelHgently, to de-
velop a taste for good reading and to awaken
ambition in the growing child. The chil-
dren's librarian must have a knowledge of
and love for children; she must know chil-
dren's books and be able to discern with in-
telligence those qualities in a book which
make its acquisition desirable. Some of the
library schools give special courses for those
desiring to prepare themselves for this work.
Wherever they have been instituted the
children's rooms have attracted the young of
the neighborhood. The invariable comment
of librarians is that there are not chairs
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