Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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Putting everything into neat piles.

botanicals as touchstones for classification concepts

Lyn Robinson, Mike McGuire, “The rhizome and the tree: changing metaphors for information organisation”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 66 Iss: 4, pp.604 – 613 DOI: 10.1108/00220411011052975

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It’s perfect, except

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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

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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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