Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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Putting everything into neat piles.

and here is how i’ve organized my computer’s desktop

…because it was too hilarious not to try. there are two more images linked from the daily what site that i haven’t tried yet. somehow this crudely drawn image was just the right amount of satisfying. (thanx, the daily what!)

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library dirty little secret: license agreement files

i casually mentioned on twitter yesterday that i was finding multiple unsigned copies of a license agreement in a single folder and got a surprise: i’m not the only one. i heard from friends on facebook that their license agreement … Continue reading

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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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