In-Service Training of Professional Librarians in College and University Libraries

M OST of you will probably remember that at your meeting just two years ago on this campus there ~ere three short statements presented on "some proposed inservice training programs." Keyes Metcalf suggested the internship with particular reference to training in administration. Rudolf Hirsch presented the program developed for the l! niversity of Pennsylvania, to begin in the fall of I 94 7, whereby not more than 'five exceptionally wellqualified graduates of accredited colleges and universities who believe their interests lie in university and research libraries, would be employed as trainees for two years. Blanche McCrum, in her discussion, was inclined toward approval of the two previously mentioned papers, but with some reservations about Mr. Metcalf's special emphasis upon the training of administrators. While I dislike to · sound a pessimistic note, candor compels me to say that I do not see that the literature or experience have added much to our knowledge of inservice training of professional librarians since you met here two years ago. There