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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

State Library School, for example, states
that the average initial salaries received by
graduates of the school were $1220 in 1918,
$1341 in 1919, and $1733 in 1920. These
salaries are for those who have completed
the two-year course. Some of the students,
however, leave after only one year of train-
ing. For such students the average initial
salary in 1918 was $962, in 1919 it was $1080,
and in 1920 it was $1444. In other words,
the salary of the graduate was greater than
that of the student who had completed only
part of the course. The Acting Vice-
Director of the school adds: " These figures
emphasize the uniform experience of thirty
years that the students who take the full
course of two years receive appreciably
larger initial salaries than are received by
one-year students."
The demand for hbrarians and assistants
has for many years been considerably greater
than the supply ; consequently a good many
persons of indifferent aptitudes and of
second-rate training have drifted into libra-
rianship. This condition has tended to de-
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