- 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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Monkey Day 2012
Since one can celebrate Monkey Day however she wishes, you may want to consider celebrating by organizing your office! Giving gifts is also nice; I hear that monkeys who work in libraries especially like chocolates. See my previous Monkey Day … Continue reading
fog on the bluff
Loyola Marymount University sits up on a bluff near the ocean, permitting beautiful views of the basin of Los Angeles. Since it’s so close to the ocean we often get fog in the morning and wind in the afternoon. Here’s … Continue reading
known problems with e-resources/e-services, no longer a secret
in an effort to be more proactively communicative about e-resources and e-services with our library patrons we have moved the previously password-protected contents of our internal wiki page, “technology issues/updates (databases)” to a publicly-available website, http://library.lmu.edu/gethelp/e-resourceknownproblems/. there aren’t many issues, … Continue reading
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job-related tasks in gantt format, update
Four months ago I shared an abbreviated Gantt chart I made for myself at work, to keep my too-many tasks from getting out of control this year. Sure, I could have decided to try to do less, which would negate … Continue reading
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Linked in, again
A few months ago I got an email from Linked in saying that several of their profile accounts had been hacked, and reminded me to go change my password. I thought about my use of their system and decided it … Continue reading
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usage statistics and grumpy cat
This is a bar chart of e-journal usage (full-text downloads, using COUNTER JR1 reports) at my university over four years. What the heck happened in the spring of 2012? Everybody became super-users of our e-journal content. It wasn’t just one … Continue reading
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