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Rh be expected of her. It is therefore incumbent upon the director to advertise the library sufficiently to keep his librarian fully occupied in her own department. It is obvious that she can be of little use elsewhere, because during the hours the museum is open, the library is also open, and cannot be left. The painting of the little accession numbers on the objects acquired by the museum can be done by her, and she can legitimately be expected to care for any print collection the small museum may have. In fact, this latter office of Curator of Prints may very well be combined with that of librarian as the knowledge required in both is similar.

The officers so far under discussion belong to the administrative staff and are therefore under the supervision of the director, with the exception possibly of the cloak-room boy, although his duties of catalogue and ticket seller and any sealing or stamping of envelopes he may do bring him  under this class. And here a very important point is to be considered and that is, that in any organization, to be efficient each individual must know to whom he or she is to be responsible. The more unintelligent and the less educated the employee, the more necessary it is that he should know that there is only one person from whom he is to take orders. Confusion in this matter