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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

library is rather to function as a central in-
formation, statistical, or research bureau,
and, like other departments, to aid directly
or indirectly in making profits, in increasing
quantity, quality and efficiency of produc-
tion, in building up an intelligent work force,
and in the general improvement and exten-
sion of the business. Only in so far as it
does this is the business library justifiable.
The business library serves a most useful
purpose also in helping employees in their
work. To the clerical or stenographic staff
such aid may take the form of supplying a
much needed name or address, sometimes of
calHng to their attention books and magazine
articles of a stimulating, educational or
cultural character.
When it is remembered that about one
million 14-year-old boys and girls in the
United States leave school each year, a large
number of them having completed no more
than the fifth or sixth grade, it is apparent
that some measures must be taken by em-
ployers to make up this defect in education.
Progressive business men have, therefore,
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