Category Archives: library

in librarianship, a double-blind review is functionally a single-blind review

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

a double-blind peer review process for manuscripts means that neither the author or reviewer are revealed to each other. most of the journals to which i’ve submitted manuscripts have this kind of review. there’s good support for this double-blind peer … Continue reading →

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organizing license agreements

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

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journal lists go to departments this week

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

about a month ago i mentioned that we were in the midst of preparing our journal lists to send to the academic departments on campus.  thanks to comments from @gohomekiki , the lists we made this year are much improved.  … Continue reading →

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journal lists, now with more journals

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

annually we send to each academic department a list of journals to which we subscribe with funds for that department. well, we send them a list of *print* journals, and every year that list gets shorter as we move to … Continue reading →

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Batman responds to IRB shirker

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

made at http://www.batmancomic.info/ in response to this passage in christopher cox’s “hitting the spot,” published in the serials librarian 53(3), 2007: The university has strict human subject rules, and each survey proposal must be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board, … Continue reading →

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reminiscing about the GRE

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Marie Kennedy

a friend is due to take the GRE tomorrow, with hopes of entering a master’s program for library science. it got me thinking about the last time i took the GRE… we had just moved to north carolina and i … Continue reading →

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