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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP
ing on general banking activities, the charac-
ter of its informational resources will be gen-
eral. If it is an investment house, its data will
have to be more specific and detailed. A
house specializing in public utilities' issues
will require broad yet minute information on
every phase of pubhc utilities' operation.
A thorough training in economics, with in-
tensive knowledge of money, credit and bank-
ing is prerequisite. The calls on and contacts
of the financial librarian are such that a
broad, sound, educational background is
absolutely necessary if he is to be on the road
toward the top. A college training or its
equivalent, as weU as familiarity with library
method, and knowledge of the means of its
practical application is necessary. Otherwise
the work will be found difficult. The libra-
rian who can secm^e a position in a bank,
thereby obtaining a practical background for
further progress, will find many tasks simpli-
fied since thereby the viewpoint of the institu-
tion will be obtained, the work made more
significant, and advancement facilitated.
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