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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP
established libraries in their ofBces or plants
as a means of helping the more ambitious
among their employees to help themselves.
As far as employees are concerned, the
business library serves an informational, in-
spirational and recreational need. For
example, the librarian of Wilson & Co.,
packers at Chicago, 111., states that her
library " was organized and is maintained
for the use of the company employees, to
assist them in not only meeting problems
which come up in their departments, but to
enable them to become more familiar with the
various phases of the packing industry,
thereby preparing themselves for promotion
to higher positions, which the many plants
and branches of the Company are offering
to efficient men and women."
Many business houses maintain libraries as
part of their welfare work. The Marshall
Field & Company library at Chicago, for
example, has not only books which may be
read for pleasure, such as fiction, travel and
general hterature, but has also juvenile books
which parents may take home for their chil-
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