Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

LOOK AT THIS FIGURE. look at it.

just got the article reprints for my latest article (http://orgmonkey.net/?p=1234) and as i was flipping through i fell in love all over again with the figures i made to illustrate the frequencies of specific marketing techniques used in libraries. i … Continue reading

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Collaborative Marketing for Electronic Resources

At the recent conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries (Philadelphia, PA) I used my poster presentation to propose a national, collaborative project with college and university libraries all over the United States to test a model for … Continue reading

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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

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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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