Brief and Specifications for Library Service in the Federal GovernmentDistrict of Columbia Library Association, 1923 - 94 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
act as chief act as principal Administrative Librarian American Library Association Average salary biblio bibliographical sources brarian brary cata clerical College degree College or equivalent college or uni college or university Critical knowledge District of Columbia DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Education and experience Education equivalent ence equivalent to graduation exercise of independent Extensive knowledge fessional field government libraries Head Cataloger immediate supervision independent judgment ject knowledge of reference libra Librarian DUTIES librarianship library division deals Library of Congress library or library library school training library science library service library training material MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Education modern foreign languages principal assistant profes profession Professional and Scientific professional grade Public Library recognized library school recognized standing reference and bibliographical reference books relation to allied represented by graduation RESPONSIBILITIES Under immediate small number STANDARD ANNUAL RATES sub-professional subject matter subprofessional service tion Typical Tasks university of recognized VERNON KELLOGG versity of recognized York State Library
Pasajes populares
Página 27 - ... based upon the established principles of a profession or science and which requires professional, scientific, or technical training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a college or university of recognized standing.
Página 18 - The need of training for librarianship, even for the smallest libraries, is almost universally recognized; but the mistake is often made of assuming that the training needed is confined to matters of library technique and clerical routine. It is true that to be successful a librarian must understand library methods, but no amount of training in library technique can make a successful librarian of a person who lacks a good general education. The most essential part of training for librarianship is...
Página 81 - ... The professional and scientific service shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform routine, advisory, administrative, or research work which is based upon the established principles of a profession or science, and which requires professional, scientific, or technical training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a college or university of recognized standing.
Página 17 - Real discoveries are actually made in the library and subsequently tested out in the laboratory- A new discovery is a new combination of old ideas and those combinations are most likely to occur to the mind of the scientist- not when he is handling material things but when he is brooding over the thoughts of other man and rethinking them himself- In those hours of profound reflection» the new combination may occur to him and then he goes to the laboratory to verify or disprove- The library remains...
Página 63 - No amount of training and no extent of study can make a person of an habitually inaccurate turn of mind a good cataloger. Accuracy in transcribing, in compiling notes of authorities, in copying, in everything, in short, is the sine qua non of success.
Página 27 - The sub-professional service shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform work which is incident, subordinate, or preparatory to the work required of employees holding positions in the professional and scientific service, and which requires or involves professional, scientific, or technical training of any degree inferior to that represented by graduation from a college or university of recognized standing.
Página 54 - Check list of publications of the state agricultural experiment stations on the subject of plant pathology. 1276-1920. Prepared in the Bureau of Plant Industry library. 1922. (Superseded by no. l6) No.. 3...
Página 17 - Graduation from an accredited college after four years of study leading up to the bachelor's degree should now be recognized as the minimum of general education needed for successful professional library work of any kind."™ To this Rathbone responded: As the representative of a school that has always stood for the exceptional person.
Página 19 - The clerical, administrative, and fiscal service shall include all classes of positions the duties of which are to perform clerical, administrative, or accounting work, or any other work commonly associated with office, business, or fiscal administration.
Página 63 - If I were planning for the best sort of experience as a training for later work, I would urge most library school students on graduation to spend a couple of years in the cataloging department of some good-sized library. I do not know anything more valuable in the way of training in accuracy, in observation, in judgment, and in general library skill than such practical work in cataloging.