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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

in other words, such service pays. The well-
equipped financial reference library, there-
fore, is a direct business builder for the bank.
Financial libraries have still another use.
This is in connection with the training of
employees. Work in modern banks is liighly
speciahzed and there is on that account great
need of competent and intelhgent workers.
Much of the work is clerical. There is, there-
fore, a continual danger of the employee
falling into a rut and the need of some coun-
teracting influence. On the other hand, there
is the alert employee eager to widen his
knowledge of the banking business. Again,
for the tired employee, the library offers re-
lief from fatigue. For these a library of well-
selected books serves an inspirational, educa-
tional and recreational purpose.
It will be seen, therefore, that work in the
financial library, as in other special libraries,
is one of responsibility wherein knowledge
and character are the outstanding influences
that make for success. The scope of the
library wiU naturally vary with the scope of
the institution. If the latter is a bank carry-
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