Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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Putting everything into neat piles.

yes, this

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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

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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 →