- 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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Viva Librarians!
headed to las vegas for the joint meeting of some regional medical library groups. the meeting’s theme is clever: viva librarians! there is a promise of an up-close elvis sighting at tonight’s welcome reception, so really, what could be better? … Continue reading
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Mickey Smith’s journal photographs
a photographer is doing a series on the spines of bound journals. her statement on this work: “Volume is an ongoing project documenting bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Most of these publications are being replaced by their … Continue reading
one item counted two different ways
we had a meeting today in my department to talk about how we’ve each been counting cataloging statistics. the meeting was spurred by the e-book cell on our spreadsheet, which had been curiously empty for a whole year though we’ve … Continue reading
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photographs as a serial
Five years ago I heard Joel Meyerowitz speak about his photographic project dealing with the destroyed World Trade Center. When asked what it was like at the site where all of the pieces of the Center were being sorted and … Continue reading
what my job title means
when i introduce myself professionally, i tell people that i am the head of metadata and content management at our library, which usually draws an, “i’m impressed” facial expression, and then the inevitable question, “what is that?” have you been … Continue reading
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