When the power goes out – Librarian Problems

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

When the power goes out

http://librarianproblems.com/post/30066923254/when-the-power-goes-out
i was just introduced to this blog yesterday and laughed myself silly looking at the animated gifs of librarian problems. this one in particular struck me because this is exactly my reaction when our campus internet connection goes down. you wouldn’t believe the number of e-resource problem reports i get when campus internet or wireless goes wonky. at least now i’ll have this image in my head when i’m fielding desperate phone calls from patrons!

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Linked in, again

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

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 was a perfect time to just delete my account. I wasn’t an active participant in their system, and it seemed just as well to let it go. Then last month I went to the Charleston Conference and five people in one day said to me, “Let’s stay in touch on Linked in!” Fine, all you Charleston Conference people, you made me rethink. I’ve recreated an account at Linked in. Let’s connect! http://www.linkedin.com/in/orgmonkey

 


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presentation-ready

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

Someday I’d like to be so confident when presenting at a national conference that I can do it without a security blanket. Until then, I’ve got a print-out of my PowerPoint (with speaking notes), an e-mailed version, a version stored in Dropbox, and one on a flash drive. Charleston Conference, here I come!

presentation notes

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usage statistics and grumpy cat

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

trends in e-journal usage statistics over four years

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 resource or collection getting increased usage, it was over our entire e-journal collection. This kind of anomalous spike in March, April, and May 2012 makes me feel a little like grumpy cat because I can’t explain the reason for it.

grumpy cat

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banana dance

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Marie Kennedy

this work week has been full of good things, but a little too full. my brain is tired. luckily, the internet is also full of good things to take my mind off of work. here’s the “banana dance”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG8cbZL44VM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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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 for off-campus access to an e-resource. those stats have been gathered in a folder on our shared network drive, and then they’ve been deleted from the system. as far as i can tell, these statistics have never been used in any kind of report or analysis. years worth of stats, never used. the task of downloading the stats has fallen to me, and guess what? i’m going to actually use them. 🙂 stay tuned.

WAM

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