Library Education and Foreign Language Requirements

Abstract

brarianship frequently reveals statements relating to the value placed on of foreign language. In his report of 1923, C. C. Williamson voiced his opinion that are of fundamental importance for all professional work/' and a of foreign languages is always necessary and each additional language with which the student is acquainted is direct professional asset. l However, schools were aware of the importance of foreign languages long before the Williamson Report. In 1890, the Committee on Library Training of the American Library Association stated in its Report on the Library School As It Is that college graduates were preferred for training because of their knowledge of languages, habits of trained attention and methodical study, power of comparison and analysis. 2 There were also courses in library linguistics which were offered during the early years of education by Columbia College and Pratt Institute. At Columbia the course was confined to bibliographical terms, forms of proper names, facts pertinent in transliteration and similar matters, whereas at Pratt it tended to embrace more elementary work in languages.8

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