- 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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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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The awards and prizes of the IRDL summer research workshops
[Edited 8/15/2025 to include the costs of the awards and prizes] 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 … Continue reading
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Setting the scene for the IRDL summer workshop: Badges
[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 IRDL program, things I put in place to make the Scholars feel welcomed and delighted in the … Continue reading
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