Abstract
Under the title “Professional Library Education” the Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, has issued a bulletin by Nora E. Beust (Bull. No. 23; 1937) describing the present position of library services in the United States and indicating the possibilities it offers as a career, and the qualifications required for the various fields of service. Much that is said of the different types of library such as the public library, the school, the university or the special library is true generally, and if due allowance is made for the different conditions and details in the United States, this pamphlet gives a reasonably sound guide to the possibilities in Great Britain also, oven if some directions have been much more developed in the United States. Details regarding training for librarianship, like the figures showing the present status of the profession, relate solely to the United States and attention is directed to a marked growth in the number of librarians in the last three decades, particularly in comparison with the number of practitioners in other professions. Some reasons for success and failure in library work which are set forth in conclusion are of general validity.
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Library Services in the United States. Nature 144, 240 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144240c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144240c0