- 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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stats gathered for no reason?
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
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
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
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
The issues keep on rolling in
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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my office, where the e-magic happens
At my first professional librarian position I sat in a cubicle in the basement, near the loading dock. The office had a megaphone in case we needed it for an earthquake emergency. The office I’m in at LMU is much, … Continue reading
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