- 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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College Students, Libraries, Technology, Crunch Time: The Latest PIL Report
what a rich study this is! i’m still digesting it myself. i’m pasting below a quote that is leading me to wonder about services the library can provide while the students stay put in the library to study. Head, Alison … Continue reading
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the collaborative marketing for e-resources project is a go!
100 institutions have signed on to be part of a research/training project on marketing electronic resources! the project is designed to test whether a collaborative model of benchmarking the marketing of e-resources is feasible. discover the answer with us by … Continue reading
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when a database is not a database is it still a database?
when our patrons go to our library’s research databases webpage they’ll see databases listed there, as one might expect. they’ll also bump into single newspapers, e-journal collections, and encyclopedias. this amalgam didn’t occur overnight, and it certainly wasn’t intentional. as … Continue reading
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evidence of ways that libraries are marketing their electronic resources
i’m curating a collection of web snippets that show evidence of ways that libraries are marketing their electronic resources over at scoop.it. add it to your feed reader to stay up on how libraries are connecting with their patrons related … Continue reading
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How many databases?
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designing a task management system for a new e-resource program
we came up with a list of major tasks that needed to be completed so that my library’s electronic resource program is thorough, with a focus on responding to patron needs; the task list is 113 items long. something that … Continue reading
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