Secrets of a Lapsed Librarian: How I Use Library Resources as a Bookseller

Wondering how VIAF, LCSH subdivisions, or even Bib Standards’ SCF can lend a hand in your work? If you weren’t before, you certainly are now!

In this session, current bookseller and former librarian Patrick Olson introduced a variety of library resources that can benefit booksellers and the bibliographically curious, with a special focus on some of the more obscure resources used primarily by librarians. Patrick is an IOBA and ABAA bookseller who spent a decade working in libraries.

Co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America and the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).