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 schools for library workers maintained in many large cities in connection with their public library system. This generally represents giving anywhere from nine to twelve months' service to the library in return for training, after which the apprentice must pass the examination open to all applicants for the post of assistant librarian.

In New York City, for instance, the public library maintains a training-school, with sixty pupils, in connection with the Muhlenberg Branch Library in West Twenty-third Street. Two-fifths of the time the girls spend in studying various branches of library work along theoretical lines, and three-fifths they must give to actual service in the different branches, sometimes pasting labels or recovering books or doing typewriting—any service, in fact, asked of them. Each apprentice gives forty-two and one-half hours a week to library work and has precisely the same hours and routine as the paid assistant. At the end of the library year, in May, she takes her first examinations for the post of assistant librarian. If her first work is substituting, she receives from twenty to thirty dollars a month. With regular employment as a recognized assistant, her salary is raised to forty dollars. At the end of two years she takes another examination, which, if successfully passed, will raise her salary to fifty dollars a