Industrialist from Manhattan, Kansas • 9

THE INDUSTRIALIST. 347 to teach us to read," and these collections in the library of to-day are catalogued and classified and placed on the shelves in a systematic order, and to meet the growing necessity, colleges and schools are beginning to teach the use of the library. Library science has been added to the curriculum. A comprehensive knowledge of the classification system and the use of the catalogue is taught, besides a thorough knowledge of the use of books. The librarian knowing the resources of the library is ready to cooperate with the teacher.

If he is to have his hand on the pulse of the whole institution, there must be cooperation; he must know each day the subjects being presented and be ready to guide the student in his search for information and seek to give cordial and efficient aid. Melvil Dewey said, "To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and above all a great heart; such shall be the greatest among and when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who will achieve this greatness will be women. Although Mr. Dewey speaks as one having authority, we would not venture an opinion as to the fulfillment of this prophecy. Whatever the future may develop in librarian ship, it is true that many women now fill the position of librarian acceptably and that more women than men attend library schools and associations.

One does not need to be a prophet to see that cooperation tends to economy and uniformity in library methods. The library of Congress, which was maintained the past year at a cost of $76,848, is becoming more and more a national library, and it is among the possibilities of the future that this splendid library, with its million volumes, may become the center of a uniform system of libraries, aud it is safe to say the spirit that will preside over them will be the spirit of progress. Gertrude A. Barnes. The committee on revision of courses, apppinted at the last meeting of the Board of Regents, met the Faculty this afternoon for the purpose of a general discussion of a number of the many vexing problems that grow out of every change.

The results will be placed before the Board at their April meeting and published in the next catalogue..