He should be a leader and a teacher, earnest, enthusiastic, and intelligent.

He should be able to win the confidence of children, and wise to lead them by easy steps from good books to the best.

He has the greatest opportunity of any teacher in the community.

He should be the teacher of teachers.

He should make the library a school for the young, a college for adults, and the constant center of such educational activity as will make wholesome and inspiring themes the burden of the common thought.