Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

new electronic resource management system

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journal lists, now with more journals

annually we send to each academic department a list of journals to which we subscribe with funds for that department. well, we send them a list of *print* journals, and every year that list gets shorter as we move to … Continue reading

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yes, this

do you ever read an article and it just resonates with you? everything the author has written sits perfectly within your world view, so that you exhale when completing it and say to yourself, “yes, this.” enter: deborah lee’s 2003 … Continue reading

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Batman responds to IRB shirker

made at http://www.batmancomic.info/ in response to this passage in christopher cox’s “hitting the spot,” published in the serials librarian 53(3), 2007: The university has strict human subject rules, and each survey proposal must be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board, … Continue reading

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reminiscing about the GRE

a friend is due to take the GRE tomorrow, with hopes of entering a master’s program for library science. it got me thinking about the last time i took the GRE… we had just moved to north carolina and i … Continue reading

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Yodeling monkey, Craig Ferguson

link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lbekts52TI

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