Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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tweets of the week: organization

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

i subscribe to an rss feed for a search of twitter for the word organization (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=organization). here are the best tweets of the week (by best i mean they amuse me): VISpandex (Tynell Francis) FYI when you invite someone out … Continue reading →

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i shove, i make

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

check out my award acceptance at http://www.shoversandmakers.net/2009/marie-kennedy

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license agreement negotiator heroine

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

you won’t allow proxy access? guess again! no post-cancellation access rights? ha ha. ILL not permitted? please rethink your stance on that. made over at the heromachine

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archie mcphee, an organizational nightmare, yet delightful

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

every once in a while you need to be reminded that your way of doing things isn’t the only way things can be done. take archie mcphee, for example. if that were my store i would reorganize the bins and … Continue reading →

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social research methods take a front seat at ACRL

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

It was encouraging to see so many librarians at the ACRL conference using social research methods.  As discussed in the sessions I attended, there is real effort to understand the culture in which we work so that we can serve … Continue reading →

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poster sessions, a chance to show off your failures?

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

you know what i’d like to see at a national conference someday? a poster session of failures. each poster in the session would have to demonstrate some aspect of a failure in a library, and what was learned from it. … Continue reading →

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