Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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Putting everything into neat piles.

organizing your cats

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

i’m not really sure what’s going on in these pictures, but the cats seem so well organized i just had to share:

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Interdisciplinarity and the information-seeking behavior of scientists

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

this paper expands on Bates’ 1996 article about information seeking of interdisciplinary scholars, so you’re pretty much obliged to go read this thing now. one particular interesting point for me as a librarian is taken from the result of the … Continue reading →

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Are the Top 5 Cited IS & LS articles essential reading?

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

inspired by the self improvement post over at scatterplot, in which the author describes her attempt to read the top 25 most cited articles in sociology, i went in search of the same in information & library science.  i ended … Continue reading →

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spring series of faculty speakers at the Library begins

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

Last semester was a great start to a new faculty speaker series.  We had an average of 22 people in attendance at the three presentations.  We’re broadening our scope this semester, including two presenters with creative works to share, and … Continue reading →

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Organizing a research community with SPIRES

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

i’m reading through an article about how high energy physicists organize themselves to do their work, with the traditional model of publishing as the surprising second step, the first step being sharing via pre-print environments such as arXiv.  though the … Continue reading →

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i would volunteer to be the second monkey

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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