- 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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Standards are people!
Q: Who writes the standards? A: You do! This was my take-away message from the recent conference of the American Library Association. The library world likes standardization, or formalizing the best way to exchange bits of information. I attended quite … Continue reading
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stepping back for a moment to take a breath
there’s been a lot of emphasis lately on communicating with library patrons by using social technologies like blogs, wikis, and rss. i am all for exploring new communication styles with our patrons, especially if they employ technology (geek alert). one … Continue reading
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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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learning how to say ‘no’
over the last few weeks i have turned down offers to participate on two american library association committees. i am stepping down at the end of my term as chair of the mlgsca’s government relations & bylaws committee. this is … Continue reading
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