- 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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Disappearing Jobs: Staffing Implications for Print Serials Management
Sarah Glasser, Disappearing Jobs: Staffing Implications for Print Serials Management, Serials Review, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 15 September 2010, ISSN 0098-7913, DOI: 10.1016/j.serrev.2010.06.002. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W63-511BPHK-1/2/c4931d6dd7aa4fb4e6908c0abbab9ae6) I find the most compelling piece of this article to be the emphasis in … Continue reading
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pursuing the bright spots
here’s a thought for us to nibble on: To pursue bright spots is to ask the question “What’s working, and how can we do more of it?” Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is … Continue reading
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botanicals as touchstones for classification concepts
Lyn Robinson, Mike McGuire, “The rhizome and the tree: changing metaphors for information organisation”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 66 Iss: 4, pp.604 – 613 DOI: 10.1108/00220411011052975
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A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on scholarly information behavior
Ollé, C., & Borrego, Á., A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on scholarly information behavior, Library & Information Science Research (2010), doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2010.02.002 About three quarters of the survey respondents stated that they consult more journals and read … Continue reading
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yes, this
do you ever read an article and it just resonates with you? everything the author has written sits perfectly within your world view, so that you exhale when completing it and say to yourself, “yes, this.” enter: deborah lee’s 2003 … Continue reading
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Batman responds to IRB shirker
made at http://www.batmancomic.info/ in response to this passage in christopher cox’s “hitting the spot,” published in the serials librarian 53(3), 2007: The university has strict human subject rules, and each survey proposal must be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board, … Continue reading
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