- 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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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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Update: Institute for Research Design in Librarianship
The development of the inaugural Institute for Research Design in Librarianship is going spectacularly well. We’ve had a conference call with both our Advisory Board and instruction team, and are eagerly awaiting the receipt of your applications. The application site … Continue reading
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Strategies for effective action
This year I’m a Senior Vice President Fellow on our campus, a small group of faculty and staff selected to peek in on how the university is actually run, and what it takes to positively lead an academic institution. In … Continue reading
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e-resources usage stats dashboard update
In July I told you about a project that my colleague and I were working on here, to develop a statistics dashboard for electronic resources usage. Our project has progressed to the point at which we are beginning the construction … Continue reading
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Leanne Kendrick reviews our book!
Here’s a snippet: I feel that the book fits well into the general field of marketing – don’t let the ‘electronic resources’ put you off- most of the information is transferable to other resources. The authors are knowledgeable about their … Continue reading
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