- 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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Research Day presentation draft
I’m presenting at the upcoming SCELC Research Day on March 4, 2014. Here’s my presentation draft! Guess I’d better get to work. Title: Academic Librarian Research: Survey Results Leading to Action Abstract: This presentation records the process of taking an … Continue reading
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Getting fitted for administrative glasses
When I was a freshman in high school my mom and I realized that I needed glasses. After I got the glasses fitted I couldn’t believe how beautiful the world looked. I still clearly remember going outside for the first … Continue reading
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Lynn Schuessler reviews our book!
Schuessler, Lynn. 2014. “Book Review: Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.” Library Resources & Technical Services v.58, no.1. Here’s a snippet from the review: Kennedy and LaGuardia offer a flexible, step-by-step approach to e-resource marketing that … Continue reading
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Not all research comes from noble birth
The idea of research can be a bit intimidating, as if the purpose is to always discover a great truth. And sometimes it looks like that on the surface, like a fancy illuminated manuscript from the British Library, for example. … Continue reading
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Monkey Day 2013
To celebrate Monkey Day 2013 I’ve taken MonkeyDay’s lead and made a donation to their featured primate sanctuary, the Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary. I used to live in Gainesville, Florida, so it feels good to give back to folks doing … Continue reading
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Kathy Dempsey reviews our book!
Yes, THAT Kathy Dempsey, the woman I went all fan-girl over when I met her at ALA and asked her to sign my copy of her book, The Accidental Library Marketer. In my mail at work today I found copies … Continue reading
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