=70. Salaries.=--Owing to the limitation of the library rate and a general underestimate of the librarian’s utility, salaries in municipal libraries are not very liberal, and may be described as inadequate. In the state, university and some of the endowed and proprietary libraries the salaries range much higher, taken all round. These appointments, however, especially such as the British Museum, India Office, the Houses of Parliament, the universities and similar institutions, are seldom offered for competition. In public municipal libraries the salaries of chief librarians range downward from about £800. Some of the large London proprietary libraries, and many of the provincial libraries of a similar kind, give salaries to about the same maximum. A careful analysis of the income, population and work of the principal English and American libraries has enabled the following table to be produced, showing the amount which a library can reasonably pay for a good officer. This scale is considerably below the American one, but slightly higher than the English. FIG. 5.--TABLE OF LIBRARIANS’ SALARIES WHICH SHOULD BE PAID BY LIBRARIES POSSESSING THE INCOMES UNDERNOTED +-----------+----------------+ | Library | | | Annual | Librarian’s | |Income from| Salary. | | Rate. | | +-----------+----------------+ | £ | £ | | 20,000 |1000 | | 15,000 | 800 | | 10,000 | 750 | | 8,000 | 700 | | 6,000 | 600 | | 5,500 | 550 | | 5,000 | 500 | | 4,500 | 450 | | 4,000 | 425 | | 3,500 | 400 | | 3,000 | 350 | | 2,500 | 325 | | 2,000 | 300 | | 1,900 | 290 | | 1,800 | 280 | | 1,700 | 270 | | 1,600 | 260 | | 1,500 | 250 | | 1,400 | 240 | | 1,300 | 230 | | 1,200 | 220 | | 1,100 | 210 | | 1,000 | 200 | | 900 | 190 | | 800 | 180 | | 700 | 170 | | 600 | 160 | | 500 | 150 | | 400 | 120 | | 300 | 90 | | 200 | 60}For part of| | 100 | 30}time only. | +-----------+----------------+ [The above table is rather higher than that given in the last edition, as regards the libraries with incomes exceeding £3000, and is based upon my own inquiries and conclusions as they have been affected by the European War. Few librarians receive normally £1000, and it is quite clear that the present salaries for the greater libraries are most inadequate, having regard to the responsibilities involved.--EDITOR.]