- 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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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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Using our Journal Evaluation Tool to determine credibility of a journal
It’s been about seven years since we developed a tool (a downloadable rubric and explainer) to help our faculty determine the credibility of a journal. You can download the tool at https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/librarian_pubs/40/ and read about the development of it at … Continue reading
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Drop some positivity in the next article you peer review
We recently received feedback on an article we submitted for publication, and I was delighted that the comments we received were all entirely positively toned and productive. The reviewer(s) brought up some issues that we could act on in the … Continue reading
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Mentoring Academic Librarians for Research Success
The major take-away from this book chapter is that the feedback about the IRDL Mentor Program (in place from 2016 to present day), from both mentors and Scholars, has been overwhelmingly positive. In the chapter we describe the process used … Continue reading
Complex and Varied: Factors Related to the Research Productivity of Academic Librarians in the United States
The major take-away from our new research is that librarians are motivated to conduct research, yet the factors leading to their success are complex and varied. Kris and I have already conducted two studies (with five years between the first … Continue reading
Meeting Jerry Uelsmann
We moved to Gainesville, Florida from Austin, Texas, right after I completed my MFA in photography, in 1995. I was soon out to meet any local art photographers and ended up getting to be part of the University of Florida … Continue reading