Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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Putting everything into neat piles.

#LibrarianValentine

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

Librarians are mushy-hearted and nerdy, as witnessed on twitter today, with the tweets using the hashtag #LibrarianValentine. There’s a log of some of the good tweets at http://storify.com/JennySarahJones/librarianvalentine. My favorite so far: @theREALwikiman: Roses are red, violets are blue; I … Continue reading →

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update: a place to put your (perpetual access) stuff

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

In 2010 we were wrestling with how to manage the inventory of our perpetual access holdings to e-journals, specifically, where to put that stuff into our ILS (http://orgmonkey.net/?p=1115). We decided on a process and are working on putting it into … Continue reading →

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usage statistics, now with more monkey

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

You guys know how I’m always going on about reliable methods for counting the use of library e-content? Project COUNTER is pretty much where it’s at, the standard libraries use to measure use. I’ve been following their work (http://www.projectcounter.org/index.html) since … Continue reading →

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#ooh

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

now available for pre-sale in the ala store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=4224.

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first-time book author humility

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

yes, i’m pretty excited about our book getting published soon. this “academic coach taylor” tumblr is keeping me in check, though. i love the internet. http://academiccoachtaylor.tumblr.com/image/29126011824 Friday Night Lights (http://www.nbc.com/friday-night-lights/) was a super show about high school football in Texas. … Continue reading →

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sharp, pointy

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Marie Kennedy

i sharpened a bunch of pencils today because i like a crisp point. i have blogged about my pencil sharpening method before: http://orgmonkey.net/?p=1079. i was surprised to hear from others just how much they appreciate a sharp pencil point as … Continue reading →

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