| | 1 | | | | | | 14″| 2 | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | 7 | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | | |10 | | | +=======================================================+========+ | |Notes.--[Callers, Complaints, Errors, Lost or Found Property, | | |etc.] | | | | | | | V +----------------------------------------------------------------+ FIG. 7.--Staff Work Book (Section 89). =91. Salaries.=--Salaries are the most difficult question the library profession has to meet. Up to the present few library workers have been paid more than a living wage, and many have received barely that. It is obvious that increases in this direction are essential in the new conditions; but it is equally obvious that no library should spend so much in salaries that it is unable to purchase new books or to administer them. We saw in Section 31 that the average amount spent on salaries in the United Kingdom was about 42 per cent. of the entire income; and the staff, including the chief librarian, must be recompensed from the sum represented. The following figures show what was paid in the various positions in 1911:--