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Volume 3, Issue 2
1 June 1995
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Case Report| June 01 1995

Life beyond the bookshelves Available to Purchase

Cathel Kerr
Cathel Kerr
Medical Indexer at home and a Part‐time Librarian at Lothian College of Health Studies, UK
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7913
Print ISSN: 0968-0810
© MCB UP Limited
1995
Librarian Career Development (1995) 3 (2): 8–12.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09680819510146831

Describes the author′s work as an indexer for EMBase, one of the major medical databases. Some issues related to teleworking are also discussed: employment conditions, supervision and communication,computer maintenance, health and safety, isolation, and advantages of homeworking.

Keywords:
Career planning, Databases, Homeworking, Indexes
© MCB UP Limited
1995
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