- 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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Cycling Through
Here’s a video of a monkey reading the abstract of the paper I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Library Assessment conference. The title of the paper is “Cycling Through: Paths Libraries Take to Marketing Electronic Resources.” direct link to video: … Continue reading
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It’s perfect, except
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it’s the simple things: resource records and html
we’re in the process of filling out resource records for our electronic resources in our NEW e-resource management system, innovative’s erm. we discovered a neat thing yesterday: html code can be entered into the back end and it displays properly … Continue reading
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“doing your job in an uncompromised way”
james murphy of lcd soundsystem articulated something about how he has chosen to do his job in a way that really hit home with me. during a fresh air (read / listen) discussion with terry gross he talked about what … Continue reading
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librarians as professional organizers
if you’re on twitter you may know that there is a feature called “lists.” putting people you follow into a list makes sense if you follow different kinds of people and want to be able to separate their tweets. maybe … Continue reading
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Using a prioritized list of features in the selection of an ERMS
Before we even began to look at the available commercial electronic resource management systems, our Team 1: Evaluation identified a list of features that we wanted our ERMS to have. We composed our list and then added to it using … Continue reading
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