CHAPTER V.
Trustees [Condensed from paper by C.C.

Soule] 1) _Size of the board_ .-- The library board should be small, in small towns not over three members.

In cities a larger board has two advantages: it can include men exceptionally learned in library science, and it can represent more thoroughly different sections of the town and different elements in the population.
2) _Term of office_ .-- The board should be divided into several groups, one group going out of office each year.

It would be wise if no library trustee could hold office for more than three successive terms of three years each.

A library can, under this plan, keep in close touch with popular needs and new ideas.
3) _Qualifications_ .-- The ideal qualifications for a trustee of a public library--a fair education and love of books being taken for granted--are: sound character, good judgment, common sense, public spirit, capacity for work, literary taste, representative fitness.
Don't assume that because a man has been prominent in political business or social circles he will make a good trustee.