Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

Remembering Walter Walker

I am reminded of a brief interaction I had with Walt Walker at a library event last fall, during which I told him about the work I was doing to acquire monographs by or about women scientists, to add to … Continue reading

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Usage statistics season

Our university’s fiscal year just ended on May 31 so it is time to complete all of our end-of-season tasks. A big task that I’m responsible for is gathering usage statistics for our electronic resources, to contribute to some annual … Continue reading

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#WomenInScience

At LMU, I am the library liaison to the departments of Physics and Chemistry & Biochemistry. Last year I worked through a review of Physics and Chemistry monograph titles for possible withdrawal from the library collection, as part of our … Continue reading

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E-resource life

We were goofing around on the site that generates meme captions from an artificial neural network, https://imgflip.com/ai-meme, and this one came up. It’s too perfect. Being an e-resources librarian right now is a busy time, supporting the patrons that would … Continue reading

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A brief summary of our recent work: An Exploratory Study of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers

In our latest study we explore potential factors that may contribute to a librarian becoming a highly productive researcher. Our study is the first to explore the factors from the perspective of the profession’s most accomplished librarian-researchers. Librarians at the … Continue reading

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Writing and its calming effect

Since we’ve been working from home due to the COVID-19 crisis I have been having difficulty focusing on things that require long periods of attention. I’ve been good at working through tasks in short, fast bursts, responding in emergency mode. … Continue reading

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