he could not be spared to attend many classes, even if any were held in his neighbourhood. The diploma scheme of the Library Association is still in being, and provides an alternative method of qualifying for professional certificates to working assistants who are unable to benefit by the training system next to be described. During the war, whilst the Adult Education Committee were trying to find a place for libraries in a comprehensive plan of reconstruction, the Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees were in consultation with the Library Association on the question of a more thorough system of training. The University of London School of Librarianship came into existence as the outcome of these conferences in 1919, a few months before the new Act. This was a momentous event in the history of the profession. The School is a department of University College, the largest school of the University; its curriculum fits into the scheme of the Faculty of Arts; the students participate in the social and intellectual life of the college. Thus it is not a separate vocational institution, like the majority of the American library schools, but part of a great foundation dedicated to the liberal arts and sciences. The normal course of training occupies two years, and students must devote their whole time to lectures, private study, and practical work; but for the benefit of assistants who cannot throw up their occupation, and also of booksellers, publishers’ assistants, and others desirous of knowing something of library economy and useful subjects like classification and indexing, part-time attendance is allowed, by which the training is spread over a period varying from three to five years. But it must be continuous. This and the thoroughness of a college training, coupled with the initial requirement of a general education of matriculation standard, make the advent of the school a great stride forward. In time, the training may develop into a postgraduate course, and instruction may be given in a series of advanced subjects, such as Historical Bibliography and the Bibliography and History of Scholarship, Latin, Greek, Biblical, Celtic, Romance, Teutonic and Scandinavian, courses which the present writer was able to introduce as possible subjects for study and research into the Library Association’s syllabus, when he was Hon. Secretary of their Education Committee.