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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP
"
Library as having a profound effect upon
the instruction given at the university, as
regards both substance and method: it
teaches the teachers."
The university or college Ubrary is used
by members of the teaching staff either for
teaching or for study, by those engaged in
research of any sort whether teachers, grad-
uate students or undergraduates, by students
requiring books for collateral reading and
general readers mainly for cultural purposes.
The responsibility of the university libra-
rian toward the reader is perhaps greater than
that of the hbrarian toward the reader in the
general pubhc library. The public libraiy
is a civic institution very much hke others
maintained at public expense. It exists
mainly to serve the public, and the claim of
the public on it is in many ways greater than
its reciprocal claim on those who use it. With
the university library the case is somewhat
different. Such persons as use it come for
a more specific purpose. The reader here is
at the same time a student, and, as a former
librarian of the University of Rochester has
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