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This blog, written by Marie R. Kennedy, is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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a place to put your (perpetual access) stuff
i can’t write this blog post without a nod to george carlin, whose famous bit about “stuff” comes to mind as i’m thinking about a place to put our library’s “stuff.” “stuff,” in this case, is our perpetual access holdings … Continue reading
Posted in e-resource mgmt, library
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taking an inventory of perpetual access holdings
that title made you flinch, didn’t it? it should. if you manage electronic resources for your library, go make a list of titles and holdings of all the e-journals to which you have perpetual access RIGHT NOW. i’m not kidding. … Continue reading
Posted in e-resource mgmt, library
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draw your own conclusions
the poll is open until october 16 at 9 AM. http://polldaddy.com/poll/3929441/ here’s a screen shot of the results so far.
the use of our non-current print journal collection is waning: proof provided
Retrieval requests of non-current journal articles from storage Over the last six fiscal years requests for non-current journal articles retrieved from storage has dropped significantly. The decline is most dramatic in the number of requests LMU patrons made: from 470 … Continue reading
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words in library conference presentation titles that ensure i won’t be in the audience:
wrangling herding cats woes 2.0 adventures what words make you twitchy? add them in a comment below