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 of girl who likes books, yet is not a student, who imagines that in the library she may familiarize herself with such books as please her fancy, and ignore those which do not appeal, and pictures herself exchanging books during the busy hours and reading the new novels when visitors are few.

In the modern library there are no idle hours, no slack days. There is always something to be done. There is always more to be learned.

The delicate woman who wants "ladylike employment and genteel hours" should avoid library work, but if any girl is earnestly seeking a profession in which she may rise by her own merits and through her own industry, broaden her mental life by constant association with the best in literature, and at the same time do something for her fellow men, she will find such work in the public library.

The circular of information concerning the training-school for children's librarians, conducted in connection with the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pa., states:

"The library of to-day does not wait for the people to come to it; it goes to them, carrying books into schools and homes. A large share of this work belongs to the children's librarian, whose function it is to awaken an interest in good reading in as many children as she can reach. Her work lies wherever children are