- 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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e-resource librarian job requirement: social omnipresence
the following scenario has happened enough in the past year for me to know that while i’m at work i have open the following social platforms all day: twitter; facebook; friendfeed. while having coffee this morning i scrolled through my … Continue reading
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our C&RL article is published!
Kennedy, Marie R. and Kristine R. Brancolini. 2012. “Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities.” College & Research Libraries 73(5): 431-448. Abstract: This article reports on the development and results of a recent survey of academic … Continue reading
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collaboration in the office
One usually thinks about technical services jobs in a library as back-of-house, away from people. My job as e-resource librarian is certainly a technical job, but some days I get home from work and realized I’ve talked all day long. … Continue reading
balance through frivolity
much of what i do in my job day-to-day is locked in and focused. i tend to hold a lot of things in my brain at once to solve problems or think through how to do things better. as you … Continue reading
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a question with a complex answer: how many databases do we have?
My e-resources unit is frequently asked collection statistics questions. The two most popular are: how many databases do we have, and; how many journals do we have? As it turns out, these questions are surprisingly difficult to answer. Today let’s … Continue reading
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job-related tasks in gantt format
This year is a busy one at work, probably more work than I can reasonably handle. There’s a lot of good projects I’ve identified that I hate to have wait, so I decided to give it my best shot by … Continue reading
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