- 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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it’s the simple things: resource records and html
we’re in the process of filling out resource records for our electronic resources in our NEW e-resource management system, innovative’s erm. we discovered a neat thing yesterday: html code can be entered into the back end and it displays properly … Continue reading
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Six Flags and my house
it’s summer and the six flags commercials are in full force. a couple summers ago my dad called me from texas and said, “i think i just saw your house in a six flags commercial.” he was right! check it … Continue reading
resource name != title
oh, electronic resource management system silliness. we just bought the module from innovative to assist in the management of the library’s e-resources. we’re in the thick of dealing with the oddities of a new system. our current topic of consternation: … Continue reading
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“doing your job in an uncompromised way”
james murphy of lcd soundsystem articulated something about how he has chosen to do his job in a way that really hit home with me. during a fresh air (read / listen) discussion with terry gross he talked about what … Continue reading
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librarians as professional organizers
if you’re on twitter you may know that there is a feature called “lists.” putting people you follow into a list makes sense if you follow different kinds of people and want to be able to separate their tweets. maybe … Continue reading
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