- 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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perpetual pipe dream
let’s say your library subscribes to an e-journal package through a licensing consortium, a package that is licensed to grant perpetual access to the journal issues published during the time you are subscribed — that means you own the content … Continue reading
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marketing electronic resources, a curated collection
it’s been a while since i mentioned the scoop.it collection of web snippets i’ve been collecting to demonstrate ways libraries are marketing their electronic resources. the curated collection may be found at http://www.scoop.it/t/marketing-electronic-resources . maybe you want to add it to your … Continue reading
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plain language spoken here
Part of my job as the e-resources librarian is to negotiate the language of license agreements for e-resources that my library purchases or subscribes. After you’ve read a few licenses it is easy to pick up on language that is … Continue reading
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coming down the home stretch: Collaborative Marketing for Electronic Resources project
We’re in Week 13 of 16 of the Collaborative Marketing for Electronic Resources project, nearing the finish. This has been such a satisfying project on a personal level, training around 100 librarians in how to construct a marketing plan for … Continue reading
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’tis the season (for platform and interface changes!)
If you’re an academic e-resources librarian you know that during the school year you are in a holding pattern, continually looping to the right, with fingers crossed that e-resource platforms and interfaces remain stable and accessible. The goal of the … Continue reading
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“Libraries should get specific in our promotions”
I started reading this article for the usability testing content but ended up loving it because of this little marketing nugget of information. BGSU students were most successful navigating the library’s database web pages when they were looking for the … Continue reading
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