- 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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External review (Assessments of the IRDL program)
This post is part of a series, describing the assessments used to develop the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL). When we initially developed the components of the program, we could only imagine what the experience of it would … Continue reading
Research networks of the IRDL participants (Assessments of the IRDL program)
This post is part of a series, describing the assessments used to develop the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL). Each cohort of IRDL had their own communication characteristics, from one in-person cohort meeting at night to review the … Continue reading
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Confidence scale (Assessments of the IRDL program)
This post is part of a series, describing the assessments used to develop the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL). In our 2012 article, we reported on the results of a survey we administered to get a sense of … Continue reading
Research integrity prevailed, I pushed for and got an article retracted
I have a Google alert set up so that when someone cites an article listed on my Google Scholar profile, it sends me an email with the author’s name and a link to their article. I use the free service … Continue reading
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Assessments of the IRDL program
Using Albert Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy (1977) as a theoretical base, we designed the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) to address the four main sources of influence on self-efficacy: mastery experiences, social persuasion, modeling, and emotional arousal. We … Continue reading
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The snacks of the IRDL workshops
[Edited 8/15/2025 to include the costs of the snacks] Part of a series of reflections on some of the affective components of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) program, things I put in place to make the Scholars … Continue reading
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