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标题：Short Communications to the Editor
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作者：Mary E. Gauthier
期刊名称：Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：0025-7338
出版年度：1961
卷号：49
期号：1Pt1
页码：108-109
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：If one were to ask which of the professions presents the greatest challenge and the most responsibility, a multiplicity of answers and much discussion would result. As an interested observer, may I venture the opinion that the librarian would qualify for this category without question-for here is the person who, to use the extremes of an analogy, acquaints the young with what has passed and the elders of our midst with that which is new. This is the profession whose members hold hands with History and willingly greet the future with its change, its challenge, its contemplation. It is the charge of the librarian that with the adequate assembling and use of reading materials, the dissemination of knowledge will be so propagated and nourished as to reflect the benefit in our daily living. This, then, indeed is a responsibility of some magnitude-historically, very old-yet, so young, so fresh, so new.