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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

regular college grade work, and special stu-
dents taking short courses. Except that it is
more specialized in nature, service here does
not vary extensively from that in the univer-
sity or school hbraries considered elsewhere.
Agricultural libraries naturally pay most
attention to collecting literature of those
fundamental sciences with which agricultural
endeavor is most concerned, such as rural
economics, botany, zoology, entomology, bac^
teriology, plant pathology, chemistry, veteri-
nary medicine and forestry, and in addition,
literature on agriculture in all its branches,
such as horticulture, floriculture, vegetable
and fruit-growing, poultry-keeping, animal
husbandry, farm mechanics and agricul-
tural engineering.
Another phase of the work of the agricul-
tural college library is its extension work.
Following the lead of the agricultural col-
leges, the agricultural libraries also entered
into extension work. The colleges adopted
the slogan, "If you can't come to the college,
the college will come to you." They sent out
special exhibits—wheat specials, corn trains,
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