- 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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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.
preparation and chance
last week our university president gave his annual academic convocation, this year focusing his theme on the library. specifically, he focused on the new library on our campus, “the william h. hannon library: what is it saying to us?” he … Continue reading
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know your audience: license agreements
one of my job duties is to negotiate license agreements for electronic resources that the library subscribes to. i really like this part of my job. i’ve liked the language of law since my first part-time library position at the … Continue reading
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to-do list
we’ve reached that point in the semester when students have to schedule their sleep! this to-do list was found on a white board in one of our group study rooms.
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