Has she tact? Has she enthusiasm? Has she method and system? Is she punctual? Is she neat? Is she kind? Is she a good disciplinarian? Is she sympathetic? Is she quick? Is she willing to wear rubber heels? Is she a good worker? Is she accurate? Has she a pleasing personality? Has she a sense of responsibility? Is she patient? Is she courteous? Has she self control? Is she cheerful? Has she a knowledge of books? Are her vibrations pleasant? Has she executive ability? Can she speak French, German, Spanish, Italian, Yiddish? Has she social qualifications? Can she keep a petty cash account? What are her faults? Mr. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, gives the following advice to aspirants for library positions: “First, secure the best possible general education, including, if possible, a college course or its equivalent; second, acquire a reading knowledge of at least French and German; third, add to this a training in a library school; fourth, if a choice must be made between the special training in a library school and a general course in a college, choose the general course, but make every effort to supplement this by the special course if only for a brief period; fifth, if an opportunity occur for foreign travel, utilize it; sixth, if you have not been able to contrive either a thorough general education or special training, your best opportunities in library work will be in a small library where your personal characteristics may be such as to offset these other deficiencies; seventh, without at least a fair reading knowledge of French and German you cannot progress beyond the most subordinate positions in a large library.” CHAPTER III. =BOOK SELECTION AND BUYING.= =Book Selection.=—Book selection makes the greatest demand on the knowledge and administrative judgment of librarians and is the question that produces the most friction between librarians and library committees. If the trustees define the general policy of the library, determine the amount to be expended on books, and approve purchases out of the ordinary run, the librarian should be considered as the one person best posted on the needs of the library, and as purchasing agent for the institution should be allowed to buy where he can do so to the best advantage. Of course, the problem is quite different in an academic library from what it is in a public library. Especially in the latter should the librarian be granted the utmost freedom in the selection of the general run of books.