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This blog, written by Marie R. Kennedy, is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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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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#LibrarianValentine
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
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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