The Library World, Vol. 3: A Medium of Intercommunication for Librarians; July 1900 to June 1901 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from The Library World, Vol. 3: A Medium of Intercommunication for Librarians; July 1900 to June 1901

I am sitting in my room (my library is one of the oldest and largest in the North of England)-it is called an office nowadays before a table piled with books of all sizes, not the newest fiction, but part of a good old library I picked up at a local sale. There is a good, blazing fire, and when I look around the shelves, the parched leather faces of some of my choicest books seem to take a genial expression which grows into an oily (as in their youth) smile of friend ship. My glance falls upon my hands, and my own skin seems now more like an old parchment than anything else; the lines and wrinkles would need a cunning eye to read their story.

I am sixty-seven years of age next month and a bachelor, and being just as comfortable here in my slippers and skull-cap as I would be in my lodging at Mrs. Pringle's, I stay as a rule until very late in the evening. Besides, after spending twenty-eight years of my life in this room, I feel more at home here than anywhere else. When I sit here reading the Record or the Lilmzry World and see the efforts made nowadays to educate assistants, I wonder whether the librarians of twenty years hence will be really better than those who. Like myself, have had to go through a rough and ready schooling, picking up what ever was worth knowing about books, whilst getting a sort of general education as we went along doing our work. I have sometimes been asked by younger men how I became a librarian, and as it will perhaps interest the present-day assistant, I will take the Opportunity of showing how very different was the training of a librarian of the old school - to which I have the honour to belong - from that of the present day.

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