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 is month. A year later she takes her third and last examination, which will entitle her to the post of head librarian at a salary ranging from eighty to ninety dollars, according to the library in which she is placed.

Girls who desire to enter this training-school must be between eighteen and thirty-five years of age; they must have a four-year high-school education or its equivalent, and a reading knowledge of both French and German, while greatly to their advantage will be a speaking knowledge of German.

During the time spent in studying and working in this free training-school a girl must have sufficient money for her support.

In many of the smaller cities, and in not a few large ones, no such training-schools exist, simply because the library staff, being none too large and extremely busy, time and energy cannot be spared to train uncertain material. And invariably, when you enter such a training-school, you must agree to give the library first call on your services when your apprenticeship is completed. In other words, a girl from Memphis, Tennessee, could not expect to come to New York, receive training free in connection with a New York public library, and then return to Memphis to take a position. By every moral code she should give the city in which she is trained first opportunity to use her services,