Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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Alternate kinds of “use” of electronic journal articles

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

Libraries typically use the COUNTER standard to count the “use” of e-content, but we know there are other ways to describe a use. This comic shows three alternatives.

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College Students, Libraries, Technology, Crunch Time: The Latest PIL Report

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

what a rich study this is! i’m still digesting it myself. i’m pasting below a quote that is leading me to wonder about services the library can provide while the students stay put in the library to study. Head, Alison … Continue reading →

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ooh, batchgeo

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

if you have a spreadsheet with geographic data in it and you want to make a map, quick-like, check out batchgeo.com. you copy your spreadsheet and paste it into the browser, choose a few options, and then BAM, map. the … Continue reading →

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the collaborative marketing for e-resources project is a go!

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

100 institutions have signed on to be part of a research/training project on marketing electronic resources! the project is designed to test whether a collaborative model of benchmarking the marketing of e-resources is feasible. discover the answer with us by … Continue reading →

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when a database is not a database is it still a database?

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

when our patrons go to our library’s research databases webpage they’ll see databases listed there, as one might expect. they’ll also bump into single newspapers, e-journal collections, and encyclopedias. this amalgam didn’t occur overnight, and it certainly wasn’t intentional. as … Continue reading →

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genetics

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Marie Kennedy

i was talking to my dad on the phone the other night about deadlines. i mentioned that when i agree on a deadline i always make sure it is met. there’s hardly anything worse in my mind than making somebody … Continue reading →

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