Learn Basic Library Skills

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 well. Exercises and quizzes for improving skills are included, with answers at the back of the book.

About the author

Elaine Andersen is Library Educator at Canberra Institute of Technology, Canberra, Australia. Mary Gosling is Senior Reference Librarian at the National Library of Australia. Mary Mortimer is teacher, librarian, author, and publisher. Director of DocMatrix Pty Limited, she was coordinator of the library studies program at the Canberra Institute of Technology in Canberra, Australia. She is co-author of CatSkill and US MARC Made Easy and author of Learn Descriptive Cataloging and Library Speak.

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Andersen, Mary Gosling, Donald J. Richgels
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780810844988
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-4498-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Library Basics Series; Library Basics Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology