- 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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when a database is not a database is it still a database?
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
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
infinite monkey theorem
“If there are as many monkeys as there are particles in the observable universe (1080), and each types 1,000 keystrokes per second for 100 times the life of the universe (1020 seconds), the probability of the monkeys replicating even a … Continue reading
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Time to think
i’m working on chapter 6 of our book and have decided to include a section called “time to think.” the end of a marketing cycle is assessment, and that step feeds right back into the next cycle’s first step, project description. … Continue reading
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“the elements”
Reviewing the force majeure clause in a license agreement today and came across the following language: “For purposes of this Agreement, a ‘Force Majeure’ event shall be any cause beyond the reasonable control of the Party so failing including, without … Continue reading
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evidence of ways that libraries are marketing their electronic resources
i’m curating a collection of web snippets that show evidence of ways that libraries are marketing their electronic resources over at scoop.it. add it to your feed reader to stay up on how libraries are connecting with their patrons related … Continue reading
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