- 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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Monkey Day 2012
Since one can celebrate Monkey Day however she wishes, you may want to consider celebrating by organizing your office! Giving gifts is also nice; I hear that monkeys who work in libraries especially like chocolates. See my previous Monkey Day … Continue reading
@IkeaMonkey
Yep, he’s for real and he’s adorable: @IkeaMonkey http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/1299804–monkey-found-on-the-loose-at-north-york-ikea-store UPDATE 12/10/2012: memes collide at http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ikea-monkey
fog on the bluff
Loyola Marymount University sits up on a bluff near the ocean, permitting beautiful views of the basin of Los Angeles. Since it’s so close to the ocean we often get fog in the morning and wind in the afternoon. Here’s … Continue reading
known problems with e-resources/e-services, no longer a secret
in an effort to be more proactively communicative about e-resources and e-services with our library patrons we have moved the previously password-protected contents of our internal wiki page, “technology issues/updates (databases)” to a publicly-available website, http://library.lmu.edu/gethelp/e-resourceknownproblems/. there aren’t many issues, … Continue reading
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Team 3 (ERM Development Team) completes its work
In November 2009 I put together a team at my library to choose an electronic resource management system. In May 2010 we purchased one, Innovative’s ERM. Over the next two years we developed the system and wrote new workflows. We … Continue reading
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job-related tasks in gantt format, update
Four months ago I shared an abbreviated Gantt chart I made for myself at work, to keep my too-many tasks from getting out of control this year. Sure, I could have decided to try to do less, which would negate … Continue reading
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