Learn Basic Library Skills (International Edition): (Library Education Series) - Softcover

Rowe, Helen; Grover, Trina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590954343 ISBN 13: 9781590954348

Publisher: TotalRecall Publications, 2015

Synopsis

A Practical Study Guide For Beginning Work In A Library Or Other Information Agency

This combination text and workbook describes skills needed by anyone beginning work in a library or other information agency. Written by international librarians who are library educators, it addresses the key areas of library work.

Among the topics discussed are: the types of materials collected by libraries; bibliographic information; copy cataloging; circulation systems; interlibrary loans; acquisition and processing of materials; collection maintenance; shelving; filing; damage; and inventory. Learn Basic Library Skills covers the changes that new technologies and new standards have brought to the library environment, with expanded coverage to show what is happening in libraries across the world.

The abundance of examples and practice exercises help the reader master the skills needed for working in all types of libraries, including public, school, college, corporate, government and special libraries.

Learn Basic Library Skills is suitable for newly qualified librarians or those at the paraprofessional and volunteer level, as it clearly explains the basic skills of library work and how they can be applied. It can also be used as a manual for anyone developing or maintaining a collection, either for a special interest group like a church or historical society, or to organize personal materials.

Learn Basic Library Skills is one of the study guides in the Learn Library Skills Series. Details of each publication are in the back of this book, or visit the publisher website for more information.
 

About this title

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.

Review

This title covers every aspect of library operation and management through the course of its ten chapters. (Public Libraries)

Overall, this is a comprehensive addition to the Library Basic Series and one that could prove useful for staff starting in a library or information agency environment. (Australian Library Journal)

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 any other information service agency, whether as a professional employee or a "friend of the library" volunteer...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. (Library Bookwatch)

Edition details

• Publisher: TotalRecall Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1590954343
• ISBN 13: 9781590954348
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 246