Category Archives: articles i’m reading

The natural landscape metaphor in information visualization

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

this article is not what i was intending to find during today’s browse of journal tables of contents, but i’ll take it!  i’ve often wondered about how people respond spatially to all those network graphs that are popular these days.  … Continue reading →

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core journals bibliography

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

“Neither formulas nor use statistics alone, nor intuition, experience, or pseudo-scholarship alone will suffice in building good collections.” — Paul Metz* These are the touchstone articles that are informing our methodology for developing a core journal list at our library: Corby, … Continue reading →

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what I’m reading: Speaking of Books

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v10n01/hackman_t01.html Timothy Hackman Speaking of Books… Connecting with Faculty through a Campus Author Series Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship v.10 no.1 (Spring 2009)

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what i’m reading now

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Marie Kennedy

Cultural competence: A conceptual framework for library and information science professionals Patricia Montiel Overall Library Quarterly, 79(2): 175-204

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a gift for you

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

what does one geek get another geek for a holiday gift?  a customized opml file. an opml file is a bunch of rss feeds all crammed into one file.  you load an opml file into your blog feedreader and, bam, … Continue reading →

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ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

i started using ticTOCS this weekend since my library doesn’t subscribe to Current Contents Connect (frowny face).  i needed something that would keep me current with what’s being published in my field, something as unobtrusive as possible.  i registered at … Continue reading →

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