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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

Indeed the filing department is generally
regarded as one of the most important in any
business, and its effectiveness or ineffective-
ness will be reflected in a like condition of
other depai'tments.
Equipment, whether machinery, tools, fur-
niture or buildings, and men, no matter how
important, can be replaced, but the records
of a company if lost or destroyed can never
be completely duplicated. Hence the im-
portance of good record-keeping, for records
so misplaced or misfiled as not to be available
on demand, are for the moment as good
as lost.
Necessary business documents may be
filed according to various methods. These
methods are predicated both on scientific
order in arrangement and on sound practice.
While the technic of filing may be mastered
by experience in a first-class filing depart-
ment, the theory and science underlying filing
in general, and a knowledge of the numerous
systems in vogue, and their applications in
business, are generally best obtained through
training in those schools of filing that exist.
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