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 for strange as this may seem to out-of-town girls, it is in the large cities that the need of the trained librarian is felt most keenly, because of the rapid growth in population and in library patronage.

The girl who wishes to prepare for work in her own town, and who must go away from home to secure such training, should communicate with the endowed training-school for librarians nearest her home town. As a rule these schools are so heavily endowed that the tuition is nominal, ranging from fifty to one hundred dollars for the entire course.

For instance, at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has been heavily endowed by the Drexel family, the tuition for the library course of eight months is only fifty dollars, with incidentals amounting to fifteen or twenty dollars more. At Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, which has graduated a, large number of very successful librarians, the course runs two school years, of nine months each; tuition for the first year, fifty dollars; for the second, twenty-five dollars; while thirty dollars will generally cover all charges for text-books, materials, etc.

In addition to this, a student must pay her own board and living expenses, for which she should allow ten dollars a week.