- 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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the pointy tip of a pencil
i prefer old fashioned pencils. i like the feel of the wood and the weight of the pencil, which is lost with the mechanical versions. for general office use i prefer the 2b grade, which is a plain old, standard … Continue reading
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Cycling Through
Here’s a video of a monkey reading the abstract of the paper I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Library Assessment conference. The title of the paper is “Cycling Through: Paths Libraries Take to Marketing Electronic Resources.” direct link to video: … Continue reading
Posted in e-resource mgmt, library, monkeys/bananas, video, writing
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do case studies have a place in peer-reviewed journals?
this question bubbles up in my mind weekly as i peruse tables of contents of info sci/lib sci journals. these kind of “how we did it good at my library” articles describe a problem identified at one library, recount what … Continue reading
in librarianship, a double-blind review is functionally a single-blind review
a double-blind peer review process for manuscripts means that neither the author or reviewer are revealed to each other. most of the journals to which i’ve submitted manuscripts have this kind of review. there’s good support for this double-blind peer … Continue reading
ATLAS.ti tames your data
i would have lost my mind by now if it weren’t for atlas.ti. i’m working with a corpus of 24 scholarly articles published in information/library science journals, picking out examples of marketing techniques used to promote electronic resources at the … Continue reading
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