- 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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to read: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
my library has recently been discussing the wealth of social technology possibilities, wondering how to effectively use them to communicate with our users. i’m pleased to be part of an organization that is thinking about this and have been doing … Continue reading
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Nutrition Cafe
the website of the pacific science center has three nutrition games in their nutrition cafe: nutrition sleuth, grab a grape, have-a-bite cafe the main site is flash-based (and means that i can’t provide you with direct links to the individual … Continue reading
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how do you become a reviewer for a journal?
somebody asked me recently how one gets to be a reviewer for a library-related journal. here’s how you can do it: to be a reviewer you have to have a publishing track record. what topics in librarianship do you care … Continue reading
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blogging gang signs
okay, so it took a year and a half for this to come to my attention: bloggers are dangerous. you’ve probably seen me flash a sign for the west side, the area in LA in which i live. i see … Continue reading
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truthiness in images
the chronicle of higher education has an intriguing post in yesterday’s edition, about fraudulent images used in scientific publications. the images discussed in the article were altered in a way that made it look like the results of the research … Continue reading
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Nature’s social network
note to self to examine: http://network.nature.com/ has anybody played with this yet? leave a comment and tell me what you think.
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