- 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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editorial queries about URLs
This week I’m responding to editorial queries about our upcoming book. The copy editor has done a fantastic job cleaning up awkward phrasing and correcting citations. The copy editor noted that several of the URLs we cited in the book … Continue reading
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The issues keep on rolling in
The library renews its subscriptions to print journals in the summer, so that by the fall our subscription vendor can place the renewals with the hundreds of publishers or suppliers we get the journals from. Using this time line of … Continue reading
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my office, where the e-magic happens
At my first professional librarian position I sat in a cubicle in the basement, near the loading dock. The office had a megaphone in case we needed it for an earthquake emergency. The office I’m in at LMU is much, … Continue reading
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our e-resource management system turns 2
Happy birthday, ERM! Two years ago today we met our trainer from Innovative Interfaces to set up the new module that would help us manage our growing collection of electronic resources. Here we are, two years later, with a fully … Continue reading
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tracking access fees
Sometimes my job is all about the small things. For example, I am sometimes asked how much we spend annually in access fees for e-content. Access fees (or “hosting fees”) are charged by a vendor once you have purchased e-content … Continue reading
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