- 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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volunteering pays
to follow up on the blog post about becoming a manuscript reviewer for a journal i asked a couple of colleagues how they got to be reviewers: they volunteered! granted, the people i asked are smartypants and have had their … 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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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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I heart Google Docs
Gosh, I use Google Docs a lot these days. I’m sharing several spreadsheets with medical students and library school interns that are working on a metadata project with me, I recently worked on an outline of a presentation with a … Continue reading
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The new chapter’s here!
I received my author’s copy of the book with my chapter in it but have waited to celebrate its publication with you until I had made it available via my institution’s repository. Let the celebrations begin! http://hdl.handle.net/10011/439 Kennedy, Marie R. … Continue reading
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pre-internet blogging
i sort of half-laughed at today’s non-sequitur comic. it’s odd to think of someone standing on the front stoop of his house, reading his writings aloud through a megaphone.(*) blogging, or writing down what’s important to you in a public … Continue reading