- 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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tofu
how do you tell when tofu has gone bad? does it smell or look different from when it is fresh? post a comment if you have info on this.
jose bedia, painter
while looking in chelsea galleries i stumbled upon the george adams gallery, which was displaying a survey of paintings by jose bedia. i had previously only seen one of his paintings at the los angeles county museum of art and … Continue reading
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Expertise in pictorial perception: eye-movement patterns and visual memory in artists and laymen.
A new article by Vogt and Magnussen (PubMed ID:17357707) was discussed at the site Cognitive Daily (note to self: add to Bloglines account). The article describes research to examine what artists and non-artists focus on while looking at an image. … Continue reading
NISO’s Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group
the SERU working group has put together a draft of best practices (titled SERU Framework–version 0.3); it is posted on their website at http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/index.html. this draft provides a clear outline of what the issues are in communications between libraries and … Continue reading
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publish your work in the past
a researcher had her work accepted for publication in 2006 in a prestigious journal, but instead of it being published in a 2006 issue it was published in a 2005 issue. the 2005 issue was published in 2006. in this … Continue reading
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don’t look at the pictures, just look at the text
when i first started working at this medical library i was heartily disturbed when i would pass by books with graphic images on the covers. if the book is about a particular technique – let’s use open heart surgery for … Continue reading
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