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14 HASKINS & SELLS February Business and Libraries TH E R E was a time, now happily past, when the juxtaposition of these two words was not an accepted fact. To-day business and libraries are in partnership. The rapid and beneficent progress of business education has developed a type of business man whose mind is trained to the processes of research and whose experience has taught him the practical value—indeed, the imperative necessity—of exact information. These are troublous times for the man of business who is not informed. To-day's world is not the world of yesterday; each day brings new problems. National boundaries, from the business point of view, no longer exist. We are to-day forced to think in international terms and speak a world-wide economic language. At all times, and particularly in a time of uncertainty and transition such as the present, business needs knowledge, exact, varied, and extensive. To meet this necessity for adequate information there has arisen a large and valuable body of business literature. Most of it has been produced in the last twenty-five years and bears witness to the tremendous development of business and finance throughout the last quarter century. A survey of this literature takes the student through the most minute processes of production and organization, to the wider problems of international finance. Much of it is written, not from the purely academic standpoint, which so often in the past expressed the theories of the so-called professional economist, but as the fruit of long and ripe experience in the actual conduct of business. Where there is literature there are libraries. This body of information must be housed, cared for, and used. The word "use" carries an almost unlimited application. To the executive the library may serve as a pilot guiding him through surrounding fogs or breakers ahead; to a young man or woman climbing the successive steps of a business career, it furnishes the means of accomplishment; while to still another it may afford the first impetus toward a productive life. But however applied and administered, the business library is now established. Financial institutions and manufacturing corporations, as well as the professions, have long since realized the necessity for a large and active library. Among these are the well-known libraries of the National City Company, Guaranty
Object Description
Title |
Business and libraries |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Business libraries |
Citation |
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 04, no. 02 (1921 February 15), p. 14-15 |
Date-Issued | 1921 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Type | Text |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Libraries. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Identifier | HS Bulletin 4-p14 |