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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

thought, of falling into a rut. Getting into
a mental strait-jacket should be avoided.
Contact with others at library clubs, at asso-
ciation meetings or national conferences, is
one of the ways to this end; visits to other
libraries, and observation of methods pur-
sued, is another.
The success of any librarian depends then,
first, on liberal education; second, on pro-
fessional training, and third, on personal
quahties such as good health, trained mem-
ory, enthusiasm, intelligence, executive abil-
ity, and interest. He who would succeed in
library work has it in his power to assure his
own success. Effective training for librarian-
ship is the shortest and at the same time the
easiest road toward it.

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