- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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The snacks of the IRDL workshops
[Edited 8/15/2025 to include the costs of the snacks] Part of a series of reflections on some of the affective components of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) program, things I put in place to make the Scholars … Continue reading
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The awards and prizes of the IRDL summer research workshops
[Edited 8/15/2025 to include the costs of the awards and prizes] Part of a series of reflections on some of the affective components of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) program, things I put in place to make … Continue reading
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Setting the scene for the IRDL summer workshop: Badges
[Edited 8/15/2025 to include the costs of the snacks] Part of a series of reflections on some of the affective components of the IRDL program, things I put in place to make the Scholars feel welcomed and delighted in the … Continue reading
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Setting the scene for the IRDL summer workshop: Fidgets
The first in a series of reflections on some of the affective components of the IRDL program, things I put in place to make the Scholars feel welcomed and comfortable in the learning environment. Fidgets (in person) When the summer … Continue reading
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An ending and a termination
This post is about the decision to end the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) program and the impact of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the funding agency that had supported … Continue reading
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An assessment of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL)
When our second grant for the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) was ending in 2019, we wanted to take the opportunity to look back on the program, through the eyes of the 124 participants who had been through … Continue reading
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