The duties and qualifications of a librarian (in the 17th & 18th centuries)

Reblogged from dark-side-of-the-catalogue:

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During my stint last week in SCOLAR cataloguing some of the Rare Books Collection, I catalogued a couple of books from the "Literature of libraries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries series", published by A. C. McClurg, and printed by the Merrymount Press in 1906.  Just thought I would share some of the pearls of wisdom and advice that shone out from these texts.

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Highlighting an excellent post from one of our cataloguers, featuring advice on customer care, cataloguing and collection management... from a 17th century librarian!

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