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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

with vocational counsellors in aiding students
to choose the work for which they are best
fitted. Inasmuch as the high school student
is in the adolescent stage of development
when habits of discipline and character are
being formed, the high school librarian can
use her position to advantage in teaching the
pupil to use books as tools in daily work and
as a means of recreation and inspiration.
The Committee on Library Organization
and Equipment of the National Education
Association, in discussing the qualifications
which the high school librarian should possess,
recommends that " a wide knowledge of
books, ability to organize, and successful ex-
perience in reference work should be de-
manded of every librarian. Most of all
should the personality of the librarian be
emphasized. Enthusiasm and power to teach
and inspire are as essential in the high school
librarian as in the teacher. Successful library
experience in work with boys and girls of
high school age, either in the reference room,
in the children's department or school de-
partment of a public library, or in a high
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