...falling for the most part into the two very distinct classes of readers of books and writers of books. 2. A Librarian is one who earns his living by attending...phrase, to save the time of those who seek his services. 3. The Library Association is an organized collection of librarians and others interested in the administration...

...views, and I hope his experience, on librarianship as a profession. When I define a librarian as ' one who earns his living by attending to the wants...for whose use the library under his charge exists,' you will perhaps be inclined to ask in what respect my librarian or his assistant differs from a bookseller...

...his own definition of a librarian given in his address to the Library Association at Cambridge :— " A Librarian is one who earns his living by attending...to save the time of those who seek his services." Few men have set before themselves so noble, so unselfish an ideal ; few have so earnestly striven...

...in his own words taken from hie address before the Library Association delivered in 1882. He says: "A librarian is one who earns his living by attending...the wants of those for whose use the library under hie charge exists; his primary duty being, in the widest possible sense of the phrase, to save the...

...Sweet ist von der philosophischen facultät der Universität Heidelberg zum ehrendoctor creirt worden. HENRY BRADSHAW. »A Librarian is one who earns his...phrase, to save the time of those who seek his services .... It is this constant intercourse between the genuine Student and the man who supplies his wants...

...should bee placed in the Catalogue of Additionals." These rejected books were to be kept, though npt added to the catalogue. The modern ideal of the librarian...to save the time of those who seek his services." l To achieve this end there is required a rare combination of three qualities — scholarship, character,...

...interest in performing that work efflc\ iently and in the best spirit. "A librarian," said Henry Bradshaw, "is one who earns his living by attending to the wants...to save the time of those who seek his services." This is equally true of every member of 263491 a library staff. The University and the Library have...

...know that he knows nothing of libraries." 2. The Librarian. — "A librarian," said Henry Bradshaw, "is one who earns his living by attending to the wants...whose use the library under his charge exists, his prime duty being, in the widest possible sense of the phrase, to save the time of those who seek his...

...of order, and a fairly retentive memory are therefore essential. A librarian has been defined as " one who earns his living by attending to the wants of those for whose use the library exists; his primary duty being, in the widest sense of the phrase, to save the time of those who seek...

...gives in a single sentence an admirable definition of the ideal librarian. "A librarian," he says, " is one who earns his living by attending to the wants...to save the time of those who seek his services." And to this might be added the qualification suggested by an American librarian, Mrs. MA Sanders —...