- 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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At LMU, I am the library liaison to the departments of Physics and Chemistry & Biochemistry. Last year I worked through a review of Physics and Chemistry monograph titles for possible withdrawal from the library collection, as part of our … Continue reading
E-resource life
We were goofing around on the site that generates meme captions from an artificial neural network, https://imgflip.com/ai-meme, and this one came up. It’s too perfect. Being an e-resources librarian right now is a busy time, supporting the patrons that would … Continue reading
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A brief summary of our recent work: An Exploratory Study of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers
In our latest study we explore potential factors that may contribute to a librarian becoming a highly productive researcher. Our study is the first to explore the factors from the perspective of the profession’s most accomplished librarian-researchers. Librarians at the … Continue reading
Sparklines (and a depressing trend)
Last year I was lucky enough to take a one-day class with Edward Tufte, about presenting data and information. The course itself was wonderful and I got to chat with him for a little bit about challenges in presenting social … Continue reading
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Need some e-resource marketing inspiration?
Over at Scoop.it I’ve been curating a collection of examples of how libraries are marketing their electronic collections. Do you need some inspiration for how to market e-resources at your own library? Take a look at http://www.scoop.it/t/marketing-electronic-resources/. The content there … Continue reading
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