Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

About Marie Kennedy

Putting everything into neat piles.

itunes card catalog

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

Project from Tim Schwartz, Card Catalog snip from the description of the project on his Web site: A card catalog designed to hold all of the songs on my iPod, 7,390 songs. Each song is cataloged on a single card. … Continue reading →

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what’s mine is yours, sort of

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

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the disconnect between library data and advocacy

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

Libraries spend a lot of time gathering data to report back to parent institutions and membership organizations.  Where does all that data end up and how do you get your hands on it?  If you’re a member of the Association … Continue reading →

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how to write a procedural document

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

writing a step-by-step guide to a task one does every day is difficult. imagine i’ve just asked you to write down how you make a pot of coffee: you scoop, pour some water, press the button. you don’t even think … Continue reading →

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organization and monkeys on flickr

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

love monkeys? yes. want to see pictures of the latest pictures uploaded to flickr with the tag “monkey”? yes. drop this url into your favorite feed reader: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=monkey&lang=en-us&format=rss_200 let’s say you want to see the latest pictures uploaded to flickr … Continue reading →

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there’s an anthropologist in my office!

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

“uh huh, i see.”  “and then what?”  “what do you do when that window pops up?”  “and what does she do with it once you put it on her desk?” it recently occurred to me that i’ve been an anthropologist … Continue reading →

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