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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP
with library and filing technic, but also with
research methods and practice.
The development of the scientific spirit in
business has led to the adoption of orderly
and efficient method wherever possible. Fil-
ing has thus found a secure place for itself and
the growing demand for trained and experi-
enced file clerks is evidence of the increasing
recognition of its importance as of the reahza-
tion that correct fihng is an art to be mas-
tered only through special training and
experience. The old method of entrusting the
filing of essential papers to any minor clerk
or stenographer is still met with in the smaller
concerns, and persists mainly because the
amount of correspondence and similar docu-
ments to be preserved is not so great as to
have created the need for special file clerk or
filing department. In the larger industrial
or commercial establishment, where the busi-
ness records are both numerous and complex,
a filing system of some kind is necessary.
Since effective service to the executive re-
quiring any of these records demands speed
and accuracy, a trained file clerk is essential.
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