- 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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When the power goes out – Librarian Problems
http://librarianproblems.com/post/30066923254/when-the-power-goes-out i was just introduced to this blog yesterday and laughed myself silly looking at the animated gifs of librarian problems. this one in particular struck me because this is exactly my reaction when our campus internet connection goes down. … Continue reading
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Linked in, again
A few months ago I got an email from Linked in saying that several of their profile accounts had been hacked, and reminded me to go change my password. I thought about my use of their system and decided it … Continue reading
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presentation-ready
Someday I’d like to be so confident when presenting at a national conference that I can do it without a security blanket. Until then, I’ve got a print-out of my PowerPoint (with speaking notes), an e-mailed version, a version stored … Continue reading
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usage statistics and grumpy cat
This is a bar chart of e-journal usage (full-text downloads, using COUNTER JR1 reports) at my university over four years. What the heck happened in the spring of 2012? Everybody became super-users of our e-journal content. It wasn’t just one … Continue reading
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banana dance
this work week has been full of good things, but a little too full. my brain is tired. luckily, the internet is also full of good things to take my mind off of work. here’s the “banana dance”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG8cbZL44VM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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stats gathered for no reason?
every month, for the last five years, someone on our library staff has been charged with logging into our library management system and downloading a monthly report about the patron types that have used their library account to log in … Continue reading
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