- 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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oranges and peaches
if you’re a librarian, chances are you’ve seen the movie “party girl.” in one scene the main character misunderstands a woman asking for darwin’s book “on the origin of species,” thinking instead that she’s asked for “oranges and peaches,” and … Continue reading
press release, introducing … me!
on my library’s home page today: http://www.lmu.edu/Page52110.aspx New Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian Marie Kennedy has joined the Charles Von der Ahe Library as the new Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian. Marie holds a B.F.A. (cum laude) in Printmaking, with … Continue reading
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William H. Hannon Library is almost done!
as i mentioned in an earlier post, loyola marymount university is building a new library. we got to tour it today to view the progress, imagine ourselves in the space and get pumped up about having an entire new building … Continue reading
you’ve got your acquisitions on my collection development!
no, you’ve got your collection development on my acquisitions! (anybody out there remember this old reese’s commercial?) an acquisitions department is usually clearly defined from a collection development department, meaning those units act independently in a library. loosely described, a … Continue reading
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technical services not in the basement?
Technical services departments are usually housed in the ugliest part of any library. Technical services do the behind-the-scenes work of the library and don’t deal with the patrons, so are usually tucked away in the unattractive part of the library … Continue reading