Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

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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how to make monday mornings at work less awful

if you’re like me, by the time you roll into work on monday morning you’ve completely forgotten what you did on friday and what your goals were for the upcoming week.  the last thing you want to do first thing … Continue reading

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Cinco Library’s Encyclopedia of Numbers

“for thousands of years mathematicians and families have searched for a single volume that could contain all the numbers imaginable.” rainn wilson talks about the cinco library’s encyclopedia of numbers. direct link to the video

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