[A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana]@TWC D-Link bookA Library Primer CHAPTER VII 1/3
CHAPTER VII. The trained librarian in a small library Julia A.Hopkins, of the Rochester (N.Y.) Public library, in Public Libraries, December, 1897 The value of training for the man or woman who shall take charge of a large city library is now so firmly established that no one thinks of discussing the question.
If it is true that technical training is essential for the headship of a large library, why is it not equally necessary for that of a small library? Trained service is always of greater value than untrained service, be the sphere great or small.
If a woman argued from the standpoint that, because the house she was to take charge of had only seven rooms instead of twenty she needed to know nothing of cooking, sweeping, and the other details of household work, I am afraid that her house and her family would suffer for her ignorance.
So in many departments of library work the accident of size makes little or no difference; the work is precisely the same.
The difference lies in the fact that the head of a large library oversees and directs the work done by others, where the village librarian must, in many cases, do all of the work himself.
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