- 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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Ira Glass quote
“The more idealistic your mission, the more cunning you have to be to get it across.” — Ira Glass from his 2009 ACRL keynote address
EBSCOhost goes mobile
if what you’re after is a clean interface for on-the-go database searching, ebscohost mobile’s got you covered. seriously. simple. interface. i’ll paste three screen shots. that’s all it took to get to a full-text pdf of an article. screen shot … Continue reading
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Faculty Pub Night at the Library
This fall the library is hosting a series of presentations from LMU Faculty members to celebrate their recent publications or creative works. Each forum allows the author to present, discuss, and answer questions about their work in a casual setting. … Continue reading
Mingus quote
“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple” — Charles Mingus this is my guiding quote of the week.
preparation and chance
last week our university president gave his annual academic convocation, this year focusing his theme on the library. specifically, he focused on the new library on our campus, “the william h. hannon library: what is it saying to us?” he … Continue reading
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know your audience: license agreements
one of my job duties is to negotiate license agreements for electronic resources that the library subscribes to. i really like this part of my job. i’ve liked the language of law since my first part-time library position at the … Continue reading
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