- 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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known problems with e-resources/e-services, no longer a secret
in an effort to be more proactively communicative about e-resources and e-services with our library patrons we have moved the previously password-protected contents of our internal wiki page, “technology issues/updates (databases)” to a publicly-available website, http://library.lmu.edu/gethelp/e-resourceknownproblems/. there aren’t many issues, … Continue reading
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Team 3 (ERM Development Team) completes its work
In November 2009 I put together a team at my library to choose an electronic resource management system. In May 2010 we purchased one, Innovative’s ERM. Over the next two years we developed the system and wrote new workflows. We … Continue reading
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When the power goes out – Librarian Problems
http://librarianproblems.com/post/30066923254/when-the-power-goes-out i was just introduced to this blog yesterday and laughed myself silly looking at the animated gifs of librarian problems. this one in particular struck me because this is exactly my reaction when our campus internet connection goes down. … Continue reading
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presentation-ready
Someday I’d like to be so confident when presenting at a national conference that I can do it without a security blanket. Until then, I’ve got a print-out of my PowerPoint (with speaking notes), an e-mailed version, a version stored … Continue reading
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usage statistics and grumpy cat
This is a bar chart of e-journal usage (full-text downloads, using COUNTER JR1 reports) at my university over four years. What the heck happened in the spring of 2012? Everybody became super-users of our e-journal content. It wasn’t just one … Continue reading
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stats gathered for no reason?
every month, for the last five years, someone on our library staff has been charged with logging into our library management system and downloading a monthly report about the patron types that have used their library account to log in … Continue reading
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