- 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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If you want to go far, go together.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. – African proverb A few years ago I approached the dean of our library (Kristine Brancolini) with an idea to develop an institute for … Continue reading
sudden clarity: definition of “perpetual”
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Advocacy: the joke’s on me
My first full-time position in a library was as the commercial binding prep person. It was a time-limited, para-professional position, filling in for someone who was on maternity leave. I fell in love with the preservation department SO HARD, which … Continue reading
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how we checked e-journal title lists in 2003
I found this as I was going through our historical license agreement files. Not much has changed in ten years!
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Friday fun: Banana sharpener
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgAkaeMavQ
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license review: it’s what i do
Over the last couple years I’ve been working my way through our file cabinet of license agreement materials, to see what is relevant to keep and what can be discarded. To demonstrate what an onerous process it is I thought … Continue reading
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