- 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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thinking (again) about trust and online resources
It seems like this year all content providers have decided to rethink their user interfaces, and since June we’ve managed the migration of five (Five! Count ’em!). Any migration is a pretty serious undertaking for us because I make sure … Continue reading
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e-resource librarian job requirement: social omnipresence
the following scenario has happened enough in the past year for me to know that while i’m at work i have open the following social platforms all day: twitter; facebook; friendfeed. while having coffee this morning i scrolled through my … Continue reading
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a question with a complex answer: how many databases do we have?
My e-resources unit is frequently asked collection statistics questions. The two most popular are: how many databases do we have, and; how many journals do we have? As it turns out, these questions are surprisingly difficult to answer. Today let’s … Continue reading
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job-related tasks in gantt format
This year is a busy one at work, probably more work than I can reasonably handle. There’s a lot of good projects I’ve identified that I hate to have wait, so I decided to give it my best shot by … Continue reading
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our e-resource management system turns 2
Happy birthday, ERM! Two years ago today we met our trainer from Innovative Interfaces to set up the new module that would help us manage our growing collection of electronic resources. Here we are, two years later, with a fully … Continue reading
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tracking access fees
Sometimes my job is all about the small things. For example, I am sometimes asked how much we spend annually in access fees for e-content. Access fees (or “hosting fees”) are charged by a vendor once you have purchased e-content … Continue reading
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