Author: Peter Cowell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780265366462

Excerpt from Public Library Staffs Although the craft of Librarianship may be said to be nearly as old as books themselves, it is nevertheless true that the Librarian of to-day is a Pioneer - for the field of his work has become so wide as to embrace much untrodden, territory, and he has had' to invent an entirely new equip ment to fit him for his task. There is much experimenting, and there may be many mistakes, but the tendency is in the right direction, and there can be no doubt that both the Librarians and the Readers of the Twentieth Century will owe much to the 'librarian of the Nineteenth. But Committees as well as Librarians owe a duty to the next generation, and they should regard it as an important part of that duty to help forward the. Higher development of Librarianship. They rather retard it when they appoint men without practical experience, and thus proclaim that, in their opinion, Librarianship is not a craft. To point here and there to one or two brilliantly successful Librarians who have had -no practical training, is as absurd as to contemn medicine as worthless, because now and then a sick man recovers by the help of nature alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.