- 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.
Archives
Categories
Category Archives: library
my weekend to-do list
1. review cdwa-lite 2. take survey on said schema to offer feedback and suggestions 3. grill a hotdog 4. drink a beer it is a long weekend due to the memorial day holiday, after all.
mentoring
i’ll soon be attending my first medical library conference (medical library association) and was assigned a conference mentor, one who has been to an mla conference before and is willing to guide a newbie. i have been to conferences before … Continue reading
Posted in library
Comments Off on mentoring
placebo journal goes bloggy!
we have a casual reading section in our library in which we house some popular periodicals, including the placebo journal, a medical satire publication. i was happy to learn that they now also publish a blog (http://placebojournal.blogspot.com/index.html). doesn’t that make … Continue reading
NISO’s Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group
the SERU working group has put together a draft of best practices (titled SERU Framework–version 0.3); it is posted on their website at http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/index.html. this draft provides a clear outline of what the issues are in communications between libraries and … Continue reading
Posted in library, publishers
Comments Off on NISO’s Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group
don’t look at the pictures, just look at the text
when i first started working at this medical library i was heartily disturbed when i would pass by books with graphic images on the covers. if the book is about a particular technique – let’s use open heart surgery for … Continue reading
Posted in library, medicine
2 Comments