Author Archives: Marie Kennedy

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Putting everything into neat piles.

join the fun: tag some art!

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

do you know about ‘steve museum‘? snip from the website: “Steve is a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data, and engaging in discussion. We hope to apply what we learn to improving access … Continue reading →

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authority and ego in social tagging

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

it seems that i keep bumping into a polarizing topic of conversation; the issue of uncontrolled social tagging in environments that were previously controlled. in the past month i’ve been following a conversation thread on an email forum about social … Continue reading →

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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

watching the hearing via the web.  join in:   http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/live.html note: you’ll need realplayer to view beacher wiggins is on right now, talking about vendor-supplied metadata…

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Is Our CD/DVD Collection Worth All This? A Cost-per-use Study of Accompanying Materials

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

the corrected proof is up and ready to read at the journal of academic librarianship.  if you don’t subscribe to the journal but would like to read, send me an email. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2007.05.007

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kind regards

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

i sign off on emails to vendors & publishers with the valediction, “kind regards,” and then type my name. i used to use “sincerely,” but that didn’t seem quite right for professional communication. i considered the simple, “regards,” but that … Continue reading →

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e-lis, the open archive for library and information science

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

you all probably already know about e-lis, right? it’s an open archive for library and information science. a simple search at the site for the term metadata retrieved 335 results. bliss. i chuckled at the directions on the complicated-looking advanced … Continue reading →

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