- 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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Complex and Varied: Factors Related to the Research Productivity of Academic Librarians in the United States
The major take-away from our new research is that librarians are motivated to conduct research, yet the factors leading to their success are complex and varied. Kris and I have already conducted two studies (with five years between the first … Continue reading
Meeting Jerry Uelsmann
We moved to Gainesville, Florida from Austin, Texas, right after I completed my MFA in photography, in 1995. I was soon out to meet any local art photographers and ended up getting to be part of the University of Florida … Continue reading
A new e-resources usage statistics dashboard
New usage statistics dashboard alert! Check it out at https://whheresourceusage.shinyapps.io/dash/. Drop me a line here or on twitter and let me know how much you love it. *** For the last several years I have been annually publishing the usage … Continue reading
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What do we mean by decolonizing research strategies?
Continuing on, reading about approaches to conducting research that roots the research agenda within a community, conceived and conducted in concert with community members, for the benefit of the community. This week’s reading is an analytic review of participatory action-research … Continue reading
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Critical Race Methodology: Counter-Storytelling as an Analytical Framework for Education Research
I’ve started doing a bit of reading about ways of thinking differently about traditional social science research methods, as part of a group activity with the IRDL Scholars. Today I read a piece by Daniel G. Solórzano and Tara J. … Continue reading
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COUNTER 5 SUSHI harvester
Annually I compile COUNTER usage statistics of our licensed e-resources to contribute to our library’s national reports and to update our local e-resources statistics dashboard. Until last year this was a manual process requiring a significant amount of time. I … Continue reading
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