- 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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QuickCite app
screen captures of the new iphone app, QuickCite, and a summary of results. Citation samples: The app worked quickly but the citations it sent me (regardless of style, regardless of book) were missing the location, a key piece for each … Continue reading
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Banana flash mob
tomorrow, 2/13/2011, at Hollywood and Highland, from 1:20-1:40. http://blogging.la/2011/02/10/fun-with-your-banana-on-sunday/ Bring your banana and pretend its a cell phone. Talk into it, text with it, take pictures with it, do what ever you do with a cell phone with it.
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oddest thing i’ve seen in a license agreement
when i negotiate a license agreement it is usually to make sure that the publisher’s definition of “authorized user” matches ours, suggest changes to any wording that our university can’t agree to, etc. generally i make sure that any language … Continue reading
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celebratory organization
whenever i finish a big project i like to get down with some celebratory organization afterward. we just finished a grant application to imls (cross your fingers!) and now that we’re done it’s time for hanging and file folders, baby! … Continue reading
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“never met a librarian like that before”
i’ve been training at the information (a.k.a. reference) desk for the past month, in anticipation of staffing it for a couple hours each week. yesterday a young woman and man approached the desk, and i smiled as they walked toward … Continue reading