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Title: HELLO THERE - VISIT TO A LIBRARY

Reference number: N0392

Date: 1981

Production company: Grampian Television

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.22 mins

Description: A boy and a girl visit a library; the librarian shows them services available in the library and how to use the catalogue to find a particular book.

Shotlist: ints. public library, people reading, shelving; two children sit and watch an automatic slide show, wearing headphones (0.28) gvs two children walk up to issue desk and ask for books; librarian offers to guide them (0.53) librarian points out the Fiction books; c/u spines (1.24) c/u Non-Fiction section; librarian leads the children through the sections; c/u number on spine (1.48) ms catalogue shelves; librarian shows them how to use the indexes to find a particular book by title or subject code; gvs girl finds her cookery book under the code found in the index (3.05) shots of small boy scanning shelves for a reference book; librarian pulls down rather large book for him and seats the boy at a table with pencil and paper (4.01) ms 'Current Periodicals' shelves; c/u including "Aberdeen Leopard" magazine (4.17) ms girl looking at cassettes; c/u children listening to tapes on headphones (4.33) gvs young people using the Careers section (4.51) gvs two visiting children have their books stamped [librarian keeps the filing card from each book] (5.22)