- 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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hidden treasure found in LMU library
there was a loose shelf at the bottom of a range of bookshelves in the periodicals area of the lmu library. i instructed my student worker not to put any periodicals on it since it didn’t quite seem sturdy. he … Continue reading
periodicals in a box
over the last few months the serials team has been laboriously boxing up the loose issues of journals from our suprisingly large backlog. instead of binding old issues of journals the lmu library boxes them for storage. all of the … Continue reading
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i’m a paperless traveler
read how to travel without paper printouts of hotel confirmations, maps, or driving directions by reading my “paperless traveler” profile on the evernote blog. they even included a picture of me with the profile! the write-up includes instructions on how … Continue reading
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A: 120,000
Q: How many loose journal issues have you moved over the last couple months? We have about 2000 journal subscriptions in our library. Let’s say that one of our average journals comes twelve times a year. That’s 24,000 loose issues … Continue reading
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oh, nothin’ much, what’ve you been up to?
the project of identifying 150,000 books that will be moving to the basement of our new library has been completed. we put green tape on the spines of books that were deemed “low use” items. when the movers come they’ll … Continue reading
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