- 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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Gantt chartin’
When we put our electronic resource management program into action there were a lot of details to keep organized, tracked, and scheduled. As it turns out, our little experiment of using Gantt software to help us has been wonderful. We’ve … Continue reading
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Our book is released
Cue the disco ball drop and pop open the champagne, our book is published. Here’s a link to the official press release: http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/how-do-it-manual-marketing-libraries-electronic-resources. It’s out there in the wild now! Kennedy, Marie R., and Cheryl LaGuardia. 2013. Marketing Your Library’s … Continue reading
Symbolism and Strategic Change in Academia
This week’s discussion in my fellowship program is about organizational culture and climate. We are assigned to read an article by Gioia et. al, which discusses an ethnographic approach to studying a university undergoing a strategic plan revision. Coincidentally, LMU … Continue reading
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That’s a valid point
haHA! Grabbed image from http://vassago.tumblr.com/post/44766938361. Thanks, @vassago!
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fun thing: SCELC Research Day
Every year our regional licensing consortium, SCELC, hosts a colloquium and a vendor day. This year the Dean of the Library and I coordinated with them to add a new themed event: Research Day. Tomorrow is the inaugural event and … Continue reading
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hosting fees
oh man, we spend so much money on hosting fees! i need to start thinking about how we’re going to nip this problem in the bud. we are charged a hosting fee when we purchase an electronic resource; the provider … Continue reading
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