Because monkeys
Sharing a link to a new Nature article (with video embedded below in this post) about monkeys learning by watching videos: http://www.nature.com/news/marmoset-see-marmoset-do-1.15818 (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - September 3, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs
Best seller!
Our book is in ALA’s “New and Best-selling Titles” Fall/Winter 2015 Catalog?!? Nice! Thanks to all of you who have purchased it/read it/put it to use.
See more of Marie’s instagram photos at http://instagram.com/p/sVoODWzFWS/?modal=true (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - August 31, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: book book review Source Type: blogs
Lesson learned: archive your stuff
A few years ago I ran a small group project about marketing on a free wiki. I wrote a couple of articles about the project, referencing the wiki. The wiki was an active resource for those who had participated in the project. And then…you know where this story is going, don’t you…the wiki disappeared. The URL was sold and repurposed. I hadn’t archived it, so all that collaborative work is gone, or so I thought.
Thankfully the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine crawled the site (https://web.archive.org/web/20130507174324/http://benchmarketing.wetpaint.com) and I can now go back and save screen s...
Source: Organization Monkey - August 29, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: library marketing wiki Source Type: blogs
2014 Ingram Coutts Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources Management
I am super pleased to have been selected as the winner of the 2014 Ingram Coutts Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources Management, given annually via the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Collection Management Section (CMS). The ALA press release about the award is at http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/03/marie-kennedy-receives-ingram-coutts-innovation-award. I was nominated by my boss, Charles Hillen, and had letters of support from two of my excellent colleagues, S Ranti Junus and Joseph Kraus. How lucky can a girl get?
I used one of my favorite photographs for the press...
Source: Organization Monkey - August 28, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: library Source Type: blogs
COUNTER Marketing Committee
I’m extending my work with the international usage statistics standard group, COUNTER. In addition to my post on the Executive Committee today I’m joining the Marketing Committee. Here’s a picture of me, ready for my first conference call into the group! Contact me if you’ve got suggestions for things/messages/training opportunities you’d like to see the committee put together for librarians, especially related to the latest release of the standard. (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - July 17, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: library standards Source Type: blogs
Ooh look, I’m ACRL’s Member of the Week!
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Source: Organization Monkey - July 10, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: library Source Type: blogs
monkey endpapers
Found via http://instagram.com/p/hPcFwZn8jY/#. The Art Center Library James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library at Art Center College of Design has a pretty sweet Instagram account. (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - April 7, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs
Walking the Walk: Starting Up and Cultivating Two Open Access Journals in LIS
Joe Kraus and I gave a presentation at the recent Electronic Resources & Libraries conference. We had great audience participation and really enjoyed talking to attendees about impetus and workflow issues. Here are our slides from the presentation:
Walking the walk for ER&L 2014 from Joseph Kraus (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - March 27, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: publishers writing Source Type: blogs
Oh Past Self, Come Here and Let Me Kick You in the Shins
Here are the slides from a recent presentation I gave at the Electronic Resources & Libraries conference with the marvelous Anna Creech and Kristi DeShazo.
Abstract: Notes. We put them everywhere, in order records, item records, database records, etc. They tell us how to process something, mark historical decisions, and guide us in our next steps. We would be lost without them, and yet they’re typically unformatted, by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of information.
This session explores the theme of ‘notes’ from several perspectives as librarians who use different e-resource management systems talk about what kinds...
Source: Organization Monkey - March 27, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt Source Type: blogs
Research Day presentation draft
I’m presenting at the upcoming SCELC Research Day on March 4, 2014. Here’s my presentation draft! Guess I’d better get to work.
Title: Academic Librarian Research: Survey Results Leading to Action
Abstract: This presentation records the process of taking an idea about librarians and research and following it to a productive, actionable end. Kennedy will discuss the generation and design of a survey that was used in late 2010 to gather over 900 responses to questions about how libraries perceive their own place in conducting research, and where the results of that survey have led. Results from the survey w...
Source: Organization Monkey - February 21, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: IRDL Source Type: blogs
