- 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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is the IRB optional for library-related research?
I just browsed a peer-reviewed article about marketing a specific library resource and was surprised by what I read in the Assessment section. In that section the author noted that he developed a survey to gather feedback from students on … Continue reading
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The natural landscape metaphor in information visualization
this article is not what i was intending to find during today’s browse of journal tables of contents, but i’ll take it! i’ve often wondered about how people respond spatially to all those network graphs that are popular these days. … Continue reading
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culs-de-sac and librarianship
when i was 19 i had my palm read and was informed that i have a very short life line. i would die, the palm reader told me, “tragically young.” it’s no wonder, then, why i am the way i … Continue reading
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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