- 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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A new e-resources usage statistics dashboard
New usage statistics dashboard alert! Check it out at https://whheresourceusage.shinyapps.io/dash/. Drop me a line here or on twitter and let me know how much you love it. *** For the last several years I have been annually publishing the usage … Continue reading
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What do we mean by decolonizing research strategies?
Continuing on, reading about approaches to conducting research that roots the research agenda within a community, conceived and conducted in concert with community members, for the benefit of the community. This week’s reading is an analytic review of participatory action-research … Continue reading
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Critical Race Methodology: Counter-Storytelling as an Analytical Framework for Education Research
I’ve started doing a bit of reading about ways of thinking differently about traditional social science research methods, as part of a group activity with the IRDL Scholars. Today I read a piece by Daniel G. Solórzano and Tara J. … Continue reading
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COUNTER 5 SUSHI harvester
Annually I compile COUNTER usage statistics of our licensed e-resources to contribute to our library’s national reports and to update our local e-resources statistics dashboard. Until last year this was a manual process requiring a significant amount of time. I … Continue reading
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California Cheese Trail
You know that question people sometimes like to ask, “If you were going to die tomorrow, what would your last meal be?” Pretty ominous question, come to think of it. But my answer is always, “A warm baguette, grapes, wine, … Continue reading
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A new “Scholarship that cites my work” section of my annual review
I usually start drafting my annual performance review report in the spring, in anticipation of finishing it before the start of the next fiscal year (June 1 start). Now that I have attained Librarian status, which is the highest promotion … Continue reading