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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

Still another function of the school libra-
rian is to unify the work of the school and
the library. In the doing of this school
librarians are making their work indispen-
sable. In the state of Oregon, for example,
the State Education Department has recom-
mended to its superintendents that in any
high school employing ten teachers, nine shall
be used on the regular teaching staff and the
tenth shall be a trained librarian who may
give her entire time to hbrary work and who
shall aid the other nine. Speaking before
the Library Department of the National
Education Association in 1917, Professor
Dallos D. Johnston, of the University of
Washington, pointed to the importance of
the work of the school librarian and said:
" In this movement to unify school and
library the librarians must more and more
take the initiative, and they must do this as
much for the sake of education as for the
sake of their own salvation. . • • The
unification of school and hbrary means the
transformation of librarians . • . into
teachers of children, who do not believe
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