Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

the library unicorn

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

inspired by the conversation on friendfeed about the nearly impossible qualities a library is looking for in a new hire: http://friendfeed.com/lsw/8c3f8c41/my-kingdom-for-e-resources-librarian

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thinking beyond the technicalities: what happens next in e-resource management?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

in the last 3 years of my work experience i’ve brought an e-resources management system to fruition, started a perpetual access inventory project, am in the middle of a thorough review of license agreements, tried a new usage statistics reporting … Continue reading →

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How did we get here so fast and why did it take so long?

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

I’ve been waiting for this moment to happen for 3 years, since i first began working at this library. We’ve finally e-tipped. E-tipping is when a library has enough electronic resources in its collection that the distinction between print or … Continue reading →

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memory preservation

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

I was recently in Austin, TX for a conference and made a trip afterwards to visit my childhood friends still living in my home town of Galveston. We had recently reconnected via facebook and it seemed like a perfect time … Continue reading →

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disaster planning for e-resources

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

When a major content provider goes down, social networks light up with alerts from people noticing the problem, cries of alarm from students trying to finish last-minute projects, and reports from librarians of calls with database sales representatives with the … Continue reading →