ed as the
minimum in academic training. A librarian cannot be too well or too widely
educated, and it is generally agreed that sound scholarship is required in
a library. This point should receive careful attention from the girl who is
thinking of library work. A position as an untrained assistant is not
easily found. More and more, it is becoming a profession for men and women
who are college graduates and who in addition have taken professional and
technical training in a school for librarians.

Training in library work may be obtained in different ways. The girl may
enter a library as an assistant where she will be taught the methods of the
library in which she is working. As has been said, she should be interested
in books and people. She should be neat, accurate and quick in her work,
widely read and well informed. The payment which she will receive may not
at first be sufficient for her support, so that she will need either to
have saved some money earned in another employment, or to be able to live
at home, remaining partly dependent on her own people until she has
acquired skill as a librarian.

After she has worked in the library as an assistant, she should attend
classes in a school for librarians. The library training school, conducted
under the authority of the Department of Education for Ontario, has a
course of several months, with lectures, instruction, and practice work.
Library boards frequently grant leave of absence to librarians and
assistants so that they may attend this school. Application for admission
should be sent to the Inspector of Public Libraries, Department of
Education, Parliament Buildings, Toronto.

Library schools in the United States give courses of one and two years in
all the branches of librarianship. These schools require for entrance
either that the applicant has a standing equal to the second year in a
university, with a knowledge of French and German, or a university degree.
Any young woman who is a college graduate and has a certificate from one
of these library schools is likely to find good employment in a library.

The technical training which a library assistant must acquire, either in a
library or at a library school, includes the classification of books
according to subject, the cataloguing of books, some knowledge of binding
and repairing, the arrangement of books on shelves, the use of open
shelves, how to serve the public, filing and use of periodicals, how to use