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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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How did we get here so fast and why did it take so long?
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
Posted in e-resource mgmt, library
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memory preservation
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
Posted in images, monkeys/bananas
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disaster planning for e-resources
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
Posted in e-resource mgmt, images, management
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annual statistical reporting
inspired by http://ff.im/SKQm4.
Posted in e-resource mgmt, monkeys/bananas
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JSTOR content and “ownership”
Libraries have been in the process of weeding print journal titles in favor of the e-format for years now. Some libraries are using their JSTOR backfile collections as their guides for which print to discard; if the title is in … Continue reading
Posted in e-resource mgmt, library, license agreements
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