



Marlene van Doorn's work as information specialist focuses on facilitating access to African Studies resources and meeting the information needs of ASC library users. She selects, catalogues, indexes and abstracts publications, including articles from periodicals, for the library's online catalogue and the abstracts journal, African Studies Abstracts Online, and is responsible for the development and maintenance of the African Studies Thesaurus and the overall consistency of subject indexing. Her specific tasks include the editing of English-language abstracts and the production of the library's Web dossiers.
