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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

mation bearing upon the materials, methods,
products and requirements of the industry
concerned. Modern progress can no longer
depend upon accidental discoveries. Each
advance in industrial science must be studied,
organized and fought like a military cam-
paign." Approached recently regarding his
attitude on the same subject. Doctor Little
"
stated: In the seven years which have
elapsed since that was written my conviction
of the essential soundness of the proposition
there laid down has broadened, until I now
regard the special library as not merely the
heart, but the arterial system as well of any
adequately organized research laboratoay.
As it is the function of such a laboratory to
extend our knowledge, it cannot function
properly unless its working units are
strengthened and refreshed and stimulated
by the constant stream of facts, theories, and
opinions which it is the purpose of the library
to supply. Moreover, since research is essen-
tially pioneering, the pioneer should start
from the borderland of that great body of
organized knowledge which we call science,
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