- 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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Ira Glass quote
“The more idealistic your mission, the more cunning you have to be to get it across.” — Ira Glass from his 2009 ACRL keynote address
Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding
…and in recent “news”: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30420 what would life be without http://www.theonion.com/?
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EBSCOhost goes mobile
if what you’re after is a clean interface for on-the-go database searching, ebscohost mobile’s got you covered. seriously. simple. interface. i’ll paste three screen shots. that’s all it took to get to a full-text pdf of an article. screen shot … Continue reading
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core journals bibliography
“Neither formulas nor use statistics alone, nor intuition, experience, or pseudo-scholarship alone will suffice in building good collections.” — Paul Metz* These are the touchstone articles that are informing our methodology for developing a core journal list at our library: Corby, … Continue reading
Faculty Pub Night at the Library
This fall the library is hosting a series of presentations from LMU Faculty members to celebrate their recent publications or creative works. Each forum allows the author to present, discuss, and answer questions about their work in a casual setting. … Continue reading
Mingus quote
“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple” — Charles Mingus this is my guiding quote of the week.