- 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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dance, monkey, dance
i’m on a deadline to get our e-journal usage stats pulled into a report and this video keeps popping into my head as i’m quickly analyzing data:
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your future is organized, and your calendar agrees!
a while ago i told you about how i use the last 15 minutes of my friday to set my schedule for monday (memory refresher), but i haven’t told you about how i manage past monday. my calendar is my … Continue reading
Posted in organization tips, organizational tools
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what great managers know
Resonating with me today is an excerpt from the book, First, break all the rules: People don’t change that much. Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That … Continue reading
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What Are We Really Doing to Market Electronic Resources?
my latest article has been published! it is available via library management (for a nice, typeset PDF) or via my institution’s repository (for a less nice, word-processed PDF). Marie R. Kennedy. 2011. “What Are We Really Doing to Market Electronic … Continue reading
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my hands are bananas
Jenny R is awesome.
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the panic, it sets in
i’m sitting here at my desk popping wasabi peas and trying to talk myself off the ledge. here’s the thing. as the serials & electronic resources librarian it’s up to me to tell my university which print journals they can … Continue reading
Posted in e-resource mgmt, food, library, license agreements
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