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 gathered together—in the children's room of the library, in the school, the playground, the street and the home. She must also work with organized philanthropies, such as university and social settlements. This work should appeal to the earnest, broad-minded young woman who wishes to devote her efforts to the moral, esthetic, as well as the intellectual, education of children."

And what is true of the children's librarian, to a large extent is true of the reference librarian who comes in contact with the reading public. In stimulating the interest of all her visitors, in directing their reading along broader lines, in feeding the starved minds of those to whom the public opens for the first time the door to literature and literary pleasure, she is doing something more than earning her salary and serving the board which appointed her. She is uplifting humanity. In so doing she finds the fine, if narrow, path to happiness, and she is mastering the first principles of the joy of living.

With this broader view of the librarian's duties and privileges, let us consider the advantages and disadvantages of the work. This summing up of the arguments for and against the profession must not be taken as the opinion of a single worker, but as the result of much investigating, the sifting of many opinions.