Page 94 - Training for librarianship; library work as a career

TKAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP ;

use. In Pittsburgh, Pa., and in Brookline,
Mass., college graduation as well as gradua-
tion from an approved library school is made
prerequisite to library work in a high school
the librarian, however, enjoys the status on
the faculty and receives the salary of a high
school teacher.
School hbraries are a direct aid in educa-
tion. They encourage the formation of the
habit of reading, at the same time acquaint-
ing the pupil with good literature. They
facilitate the accumulation of knowledge and
contribute directly to the improvement of the
intelligence of the individual. They give the
growing boy and girl an intimacy with a
world of experience larger than their own.
They indicate the main directions in which
human endeavor finds occupation and thus
aid the child directly in determining his own
future work. A school library does not need
to have many books. "What it has should,
however, be the best. Good clear print, and
good paper and illustrations should always
be preferred. The aesthetic influence of a
book that is well printed and well illustrated
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