Comment

THE EMOTIVE term ‘over‐supply’ has been used for some years' in the library profession, particularly by those senior librarians who have experienced large numbers of applicants for each junior professional post they have advertised. The existence of an over‐supply has also been denied from time to time—not too recently, perhaps—or, at best, misgivings have been soothed by the feeling that unemployment in librarianship might not compare unfavourably with unemployment in other professions, and the general problem of graduate unemployment is a national factor quite unrelated to specific professions.