- 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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science debate
choosing a candidate to vote for in the upcoming presidential elections can be overwhelming. the candidates say a lot about a lot of things. how does one narrow that down? i’ve helped myself cut through the tall weeds by identifying … Continue reading
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OpenCongress
if you like knowing what your members of congress are up to, check out this site, aimed at openness and transparency in government: http://www.opencongress.org/. once you create a profile your representatives and senators will be identified and you can create … Continue reading
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decimate
i had understood the word decimate to mean “to select by lot and kill every tenth person of” until fairly recently, when i’ve heard it used to describe a situation in which everyone has been killed or everything has been … Continue reading
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jotting my way to work
i have an hour-long commute to and from work each day. the down time in my car is where i do my best thinking, but there’s something magic about the distance between my car and a piece of paper in … Continue reading
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Mickey Smith’s journal photographs
a photographer is doing a series on the spines of bound journals. her statement on this work: “Volume is an ongoing project documenting bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their … Continue reading