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ISBN: 0810844982

ISBN13: 9780810844988

Learn Basic Library Skills

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An examination of the skills needed for working in a library or other information agency. Each chapter deals with a section of basic library work and the knowledge and skills needed to perform it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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For anyone contemplating working for a library

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Collaboratively developed and written by Elaine Andersen (Library Educator, Canberra Institute of Technology, Canberra, Australia), Mary Gosling (Reference Librarian and Library Educator), Mary Mortimer (Director of DocMatrix Pty Limited), edited by Trina Grover (Catalogue Librarian, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) and Mary McConnell (Head of Bibliographic Services, University of Calgary Library, Calgary, Canada), Learn Basic Library Skills is a straightforward, "user friendly" instructional guide to the basic skills necessary and needed to work for any academic, corporate, governmental, or public library or other information service agency, whether as a professional employee or a "friend of the library" volunteer. Individual chapters address building competency in such necessary areas as using and maintaining bibliographic records; shelving materials; book repair; stocktaking; weeding; and more. A first-rate title and an absolute "must-read" for anyone contemplating working for a library, Learn Basic Library Skills is an essential and core addition to any Library Science reference collection or supplemental reading list.
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