Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III WHO ARE YOU GOING TO SELECT FOR YOUR BUSINESS LIBRARIAN? Who are you going to select for your business librarian? The "nice, bright girl" who has done general office work for you? A technically trained man who thinks he can work out an original library system? A correspondence file clerk? A stenographer or private secretary? These are the people whom many executives have put in charge of their library work. In fact, they have selected for a librarian almost any one except the person who has been specially educated to do that particular kind of work. You do not employ an auditor, Mr. Executive, who has never mastered single-entry bookkeeping, you do not consult your family physician when you want expert legal help, you do not consult a chemist when you want advice on the problems of investment banking, but when you select a librarian you often put your library work into the hands of some one who does not know the most elemental points in library technique. The young woman who recently called upon a prominent business library for advice, and who stated that she was organizing a business library research department in a firm whose business was telling other firms how to be efficient and how to organize their business, and who did not even know the difference between the Dewey DecimalClassification and the Cutter Author Table, two well-known items in library technique, is a good example of some of the inquirers who come to many well-organized business libraries. It is a common occurrence for business houses to send one of their stenographers, file clerks, or general office men to visit business libraries in order to make observations, always very superficial, with the result that they immediately purchase a file cabinet, some packs of cards, a Dewey Decimal Cla...