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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

library is the right hand of the bank executive.
Progressive bank officers recognize this re-
lationship. Thus Francis H. Sisson, Vice-
President of the Guaranty Trust Company,
"
states : To-day the assembling of the facts
is a task for experts, and the field of these
experts is the financial library." In other
words, the library lies at the heart of the
financial house. The latter's existence rests
on exact information; the proper source to
supply this information is its library. To
quote Mr. Sisson further: " The financial
library is preeminently a working library.
Into it are gathered the materials, in whatever
form, which the banker needs in the course of
his business, and that business is to-day con-
cerned with a multiplicity of activities simply
astonishing to the layman. . . . To-day
the assembling of facts is a task for experts
and the field of those experts is the financial
library. This library is something more than
a medium through which the officers and em-
ployees of the bank can obtain immediate
access to the information which they require.
It is also a source of information to which the
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