The Library World Volume 60 Issue 1

Abstract

ONE cannot help wondering why people set out to become librarians. Many do so, it must be realised, because they are basically unqualified to become anything else. This is unfortunately true of many graduate entrants who frequently seek employment at libraries having failed as teachers, theological students and the like. They can read and write, and having had sufficient intelligence to take a degree, they pass muster as librarians. Most of them would not do so if they could, so many of them think, find anything better. Many others are sent to librarians for interview by Youth Employment Officers who cannot find higher paid positions at the time and, of course, for most of the smaller towns, it is almost the only respectable employment for “nice” young ladies before matrimony unless they have been taught typewriting and shorthand or know how to handle an adding machine.

Citation

(1958), "The Library World Volume 60 Issue 1", New Library World, Vol. 60 No. 1, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009424