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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

ing in a library school or first-rate library, is
undoubtedly the best way to success in the
medical library.
Allied in certain ways to the medical
library, although differing from it at times
both in scope and method of work, is the insti-
tutional library. During the last decade
libraries have been used with much success in
connection with those physically or mentally
unwell, and also with others—delinquents,
prisoners, and those confined for one reason
or another in institutions. Among such in-
stitutions may be named the hospital, the
sanitarium, the asylum for the feeble-minded,
the insane, the blind, the deaf, the dumb, the
reformatory, the prison, the school for juve-
nile delinquents, the home for inebriates and
for the aged and infirm. All these institu-
tions, it will be noted, are concerned with the
custodial care of those who are either men-
tally, physically, educationally, or in some
other way subnormal. The primary motive of
those to whom the care of these dependents,
delinquents and defectives is entrusted is, if
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