-
This blog, written by Marie R. Kennedy, is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
Archives
Categories
Author Archives: Marie Kennedy
ooh, batchgeo
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
Posted in e-resource mgmt, marketing, organizational tools
Comments Off on ooh, batchgeo
the collaborative marketing for e-resources project is a go!
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
Posted in e-resource mgmt, library, marketing, wiki
2 Comments
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
Posted in e-resource mgmt, library
5 Comments
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
Posted in writing
3 Comments
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
Posted in management, marketing, organization tips, writing
Comments Off on Time to think