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You Can Help

There is a rapidly increasing shortage of trained librarians for beginning positions. In consequence many libraries have found it difficult (sometimes impossible) to fill such positions. Some libraries have been called upon for extra services, and have had to undertake these services with no additional staff, even with a reduced staff. Although beginning salaries have b£en increasing, the demand is greater than the supply. • Stnxi two rforming one's duties to the best of one's ability. id collectively be able to help " take up some of the nw vacancies :he In-. Ihe second opportunity for each librarian to help is by encouraging promising students to prepare themselves for librarianship. Library schools generally are equipped to train many more students than they have had D either in 1941-42 or in 1942-43. Larger library school classes in 1943-44 1943's problems but they will greatly neip beg 3w before it is too late. Otherwise it seems another story of too little and too late. . In encouraging students to enter librarianship, several points may Prove helpful. M r i m 1. Libraries have been recognized as ^ ^ ^ S^ ^ in wartime by such persons as President Rooscvclt; J ^ W . ^e ol baker, C o t n n t L o n e r of Education; and E me D . D « o f owl. 2. Beginning salaries have been increasing,

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