We hear a great deal of the importance of having trained librarians; of the folly of employing those unqualified for
their special work, and similar talk, such as would fit the employment of physicians without medical education. Some of us
forget how few fill these requirements, and the reasons why
the many are so deficient.
[Originally published in: The Library Journal, vol. 4 (1879), n. 5, 147-148]