- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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spring series of faculty speakers at the Library begins
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
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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ATLAS.ti tames your data
i would have lost my mind by now if it weren’t for atlas.ti. i’m working with a corpus of 24 scholarly articles published in information/library science journals, picking out examples of marketing techniques used to promote electronic resources at the … Continue reading
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a missed branding opportunity
when a researcher is in literature review mode, she is downloading tens of documents at a time to read later. the usual organizational scheme at the beginning of a research project -for me at least- is to save all those … Continue reading
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LOLform
if i were looking for a project to work on and wanted to identify a form or process that may benefit from some revision, this would be it. this is a scan of an interlibrary loan request i put in … Continue reading