- 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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Drop some positivity in the next article you peer review
We recently received feedback on an article we submitted for publication, and I was delighted that the comments we received were all entirely positively toned and productive. The reviewer(s) brought up some issues that we could act on in the … Continue reading
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Mentoring Academic Librarians for Research Success
The major take-away from this book chapter is that the feedback about the IRDL Mentor Program (in place from 2016 to present day), from both mentors and Scholars, has been overwhelmingly positive. In the chapter we describe the process used … Continue reading
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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