Capacity and willingness to work are more useful than a taste for literature without practical qualities.

General culture and wide reading are generally more serviceable to the public library than the knowledge of the specialist or scholar.

See that different sections of the town's interests are represented.

Let neither politics nor religion enter into the choice of trustees.
4) _Duties_ .-- The trustee of the public library is elected to preserve and extend the benefits of the library as the people's university.

He can learn library science only by intelligent observation and study.
He should not hold his position unless he takes a lively interest in the library, attends trustees' meetings, reads the library journals, visits other libraries than his own, and keeps close watch of the tastes and requirements of his constituency.