Category Archives: library

usage statistics and grumpy cat

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

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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stats gathered for no reason?

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

every month, for the last five years, someone on our library staff has been charged with logging into our library management system and downloading a monthly report about the patron types that have used their library account to log in … Continue reading →

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skateboard lockers in the library

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

my library is in on a university campus in southern california. some of our students get around campus on skateboards. the library has day-use lockers tall enough to store them, but most people just lean their skateboards up against the … Continue reading →

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e-resource librarian job requirement: social omnipresence

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

the following scenario has happened enough in the past year for me to know that while i’m at work i have open the following social platforms all day: twitter; facebook; friendfeed. while having coffee this morning i scrolled through my … Continue reading →

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collaboration in the office

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

One usually thinks about technical services jobs in a library as back-of-house, away from people. My job as e-resource librarian is certainly a technical job, but some days I get home from work and realized I’ve talked all day long. … Continue reading →

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The issues keep on rolling in

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

The library renews its subscriptions to print journals in the summer, so that by the fall our subscription vendor can place the renewals with the hundreds of publishers or suppliers we get the journals from. Using this time line of … Continue reading →

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