- 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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do you have any words of advice?
a library student intern from ucla recently asked me if i had any words of advice for someone young in the profession. i told her that the wisest thing i could advise her to do was to be considerate to … Continue reading
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books on electronic resource management
Here’s a mini-bibliography of monographs published on the subject of electronic resource management. Happy reading! If you know of one that I’ve left off the list, please leave a comment with the info. 2009. Jones, Wayne (ed.). E-journals Access and … Continue reading
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Standards are people!
Q: Who writes the standards? A: You do! This was my take-away message from the recent conference of the American Library Association. The library world likes standardization, or formalizing the best way to exchange bits of information. I attended quite … Continue reading
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stepping back for a moment to take a breath
there’s been a lot of emphasis lately on communicating with library patrons by using social technologies like blogs, wikis, and rss. i am all for exploring new communication styles with our patrons, especially if they employ technology (geek alert). one … Continue reading
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