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This blog, written by Marie R. Kennedy, is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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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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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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