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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

derive from a study of these, and because of
their need to be informed of the legal and
official activities of other states.
For the same reasons the state libraries find
it necessary to be a repository for official
publications of the federal government. In
fact, the state libraries have, as a rule, the
best collections of documents within their
respective states. Under the federal laws
regulating the office of the Superintendent of
Documents of the United States, each state
library is recognized as a depository for fed-
eral publications, and only as it makes these
accessible to and encourages the use of these
by its officers and citizens, does it serve both
the federal government and them.
In addition to its official documents, the
life of the state is recorded and best inter-
preted in those publications having direct
reference to it. Such works as biographies
of its more prominent citizens, county and
state society histories, local directories, rec-
ords and newspapers, and in general books
dealing with the political, social, industrial
and educational life must be preserved since
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