- 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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perpetual pipe dream
let’s say your library subscribes to an e-journal package through a licensing consortium, a package that is licensed to grant perpetual access to the journal issues published during the time you are subscribed — that means you own the content … Continue reading
Posted in e-resource mgmt, management, publishers
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marketing electronic resources, a curated collection
it’s been a while since i mentioned the scoop.it collection of web snippets i’ve been collecting to demonstrate ways libraries are marketing their electronic resources. the curated collection may be found at http://www.scoop.it/t/marketing-electronic-resources . maybe you want to add it to your … Continue reading
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plain language spoken here
Part of my job as the e-resources librarian is to negotiate the language of license agreements for e-resources that my library purchases or subscribes. After you’ve read a few licenses it is easy to pick up on language that is … Continue reading
Posted in articles i'm reading, e-resource mgmt, license agreements
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monkey corker
oh man. http://www.monkeybusiness.co.il/product.cfm?MB_cId=16&MB_pId=180&nosub=1
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Melancholy : a depression of spirits
The cycle of mounting and executing and moving on to the next project has skidded to a halt, and he cannot say why. It does not make sense to him. Not this night or any other, not at any level … Continue reading