- 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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first-time book author humility
yes, i’m pretty excited about our book getting published soon. this “academic coach taylor” tumblr is keeping me in check, though. i love the internet. http://academiccoachtaylor.tumblr.com/image/29126011824 Friday Night Lights (http://www.nbc.com/friday-night-lights/) was a super show about high school football in Texas. … Continue reading
i’m somebody now!
you know that scene in “the jerk” when the new phonebook arrives and navin johnson sees his name in print for the first time? i just had that kind of a moment here in my office when i discovered that … Continue reading
our C&RL article is published!
Kennedy, Marie R. and Kristine R. Brancolini. 2012. “Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities.” College & Research Libraries 73(5): 431-448. Abstract: This article reports on the development and results of a recent survey of academic … Continue reading
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editorial queries about URLs
This week I’m responding to editorial queries about our upcoming book. The copy editor has done a fantastic job cleaning up awkward phrasing and correcting citations. The copy editor noted that several of the URLs we cited in the book … Continue reading
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Melancholy : a depression of spirits
The cycle of mounting and executing and moving on to the next project has skidded to a halt, and he cannot say why. It does not make sense to him. Not this night or any other, not at any level … Continue reading