Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

a question with a complex answer: how many databases do we have?

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

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

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

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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editorial queries about URLs

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

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

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

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

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

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 →