Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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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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ATLAS.ti tames your data

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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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