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334 PAPER READ BEFORE librarians may have at their own disposal. The working powers of this Club depend entirely on the goodwill of its individual members, and we must do our best to prevent anyone from depriving us of this goodwill by making himself a nuisance. Two results seem to follow from these considera- tions. The first is that we shall make both quicker and surer progress if, without over-organizing our- selves on paper, librarians of libraries of the same class can get together for informal talks. A few Tea-Parties ought surely to have great results. There might be one for College Librarians, another for librarians of the libraries of Departments of State, a third for librarians of Learned Societies. There is no need formally to organize such Sub- Sedtions under Deputy-Assistant-Chairmen or any such officials. A little private hospitality will do all that is needed by bringing together a few members who will have an inside knowledge of what can be done and what cannot be done in any given class of library, without flourishing rods over anyone else's back. The second suggestion is that it might facilitate both the avoidance of obstacles and the increase of funds if we admitted to membership, in reasonable numbers, influential persons who are professionally interested in libraries without themselves being librarians. It would be easy to suggest names- some, in fact, have already been put forward by members to whom this idea has occurred and their inclusion would surely strengthen us very considerably. For convenience of discussion it may be well