Marlene van Doorn

Marlene van Doorn's worked as an information specialist focusing on facilitating access to African Studies resources and meeting the information needs of ASC library users. She selected, catalogued, indexed and abstracted publications, including articles from periodicals, for the library's online catalogue and the abstracts journal, African Studies Abstracts Online, and was responsible for the development and maintenance of the African Studies Thesaurus and the overall consistency of subject indexing. Her specific tasks included the editing of English-language abstracts and the production of the library's web dossiers.