- 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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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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Interdisciplinarity and the information-seeking behavior of scientists
this paper expands on Bates’ 1996 article about information seeking of interdisciplinary scholars, so you’re pretty much obliged to go read this thing now. one particular interesting point for me as a librarian is taken from the result of the … Continue reading
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