Nora Lorraine Martin reviews our book!
Nora Lorraine Martin, (2013) “Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources: A How-To-Do-It Manual“, Library Management, Vol. 34 Iss: 8/9, pp.720 – 721.
Here’s a snippet from the review:
In summary, this publication is an extremely useful, practical and evidence-based approach to the topic. Personally, I found that this book very easy to read as the authors’ demonstrate a sound knowledge of e-resource marketing, with a strong focus on public and academic libraries. Of particular value, this publication also contains sample marketing plans for examples of leading practice. It is recommend...
Source: Organization Monkey - October 22, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: marketing writing Source Type: blogs
Booklist reviews Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources
http://www.booklistonline.com/Marketing-Your-Library-s-Electronic-Resources-A-How-To-Do-It-Manual-for-Librarians-Marie-R-Kennedy/pid=6177685
here’s a snippet from the review:
Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources, the most recent entry in Neal-Schuman’s A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians series, delivers everything one would expect from a guide written by two highly respected academic electronic-resources librarians. Kennedy (Loyola Marymount University) has written extensively about electronic resources and is the author of the blog Organization Monkey, while LaGuardia (Harvard University) has been rev...
Source: Organization Monkey - October 18, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: marketing writing Source Type: blogs
If you want to go far, go together.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. – African proverb
A few years ago I approached the dean of our library (Kristine Brancolini) with an idea to develop an institute for research design for librarians. I had been inspired by the work done in this area in anthropology (http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~ufruss/documents/bernard%202008%20history%20of%20methods%20camp.pdf) and reasoned that the model of bringing together professionals for an intensive training and networking experience would have similar success for librarians.
Kris and I launched a national survey in December 2010 to assess h...
Source: Organization Monkey - October 16, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: IRDL library Source Type: blogs
sudden clarity: definition of “perpetual”
(Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - September 25, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt license agreements Source Type: blogs
Advocacy: the joke’s on me
My first full-time position in a library was as the commercial binding prep person. It was a time-limited, para-professional position, filling in for someone who was on maternity leave. I fell in love with the preservation department SO HARD, which is where commercial binding prep was housed, that my boss suggested I consider becoming a preservation librarian. I witnessed his struggles with library administration, the need to justify budget and people, and sometimes the right to simply have a preservation department at all, and it affected me negatively. I didn’t want a job in which I was going to need to have those ...
Source: Organization Monkey - September 23, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt library Source Type: blogs
how we checked e-journal title lists in 2003
I found this as I was going through our historical license agreement files. Not much has changed in ten years! (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - September 16, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt library license agreements Source Type: blogs
Friday fun: Banana sharpener
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgAkaeMavQ (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - September 13, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs
license review: it’s what i do
Over the last couple years I’ve been working my way through our file cabinet of license agreement materials, to see what is relevant to keep and what can be discarded. To demonstrate what an onerous process it is I thought I’d show you the folders I’ll be looking through to organize our Wiley electronic subscriptions and purchases. Looks like we’ve got some stuff back from before the merger with Blackwell. Once the relevant material is gathered, organized by date (most current info on top), we’ll scan this license pile, save it to a web server, and link a URL to our resource record. I’ll...
Source: Organization Monkey - August 29, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt license agreements Source Type: blogs
Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources (MSU LEETS presentation)
I’ll be attending the MSU LEETS summit this week. Here is a link to the slides of my presentation:
Marketing Your Library’s Electronic Resources (MSU LEETS presentation) from Marie Kennedy
http://www.slideshare.net/orgmonkey/kennedy2013-leets (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - August 2, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt marketing Source Type: blogs
this is my relieved face: *_*
This weekend I tested authentication access to all of our databases from outside the campus IP range, using the new proxy server. It went surprisingly well. I uncovered eleventy subscription/title problems, but the new proxy server seems to work very well.
I changed the snippet in SerialsSolutions today, Sunday. That change will run overnight, so tomorrow our patrons who use the A-Z Journal List will be accessing all our journals through the new server. SerSol is going to send us a new file of e-journal holdings with corrected URLs tomorrow, and we’ll load those tens of thousands of records into the system so that th...
Source: Organization Monkey - July 21, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt Source Type: blogs
e-resources usage stats dashboard
“A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives: consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance” (Few, p.34).
Wow, there are some really unattractive dashboards out there. When we were wondering if we should make a dashboard for all of our e-resource usage stats and charts we did a Google search to see what we could crib from. Word of advice: if you’re thinking about creating a dashboard and you’re not well-versed in visual design, check this book out before you get rolling: Few, Stephen. 2006. Informat...
Source: Organization Monkey - July 18, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt Source Type: blogs
One good thing about asking the question
…is that you’re gonna get an answer!
Librarians who serve our patrons at service points are THE people to stay in touch with if you’re thinking about how to improve your library’s electronic resources. I stopped by the Info Desk to chat with the librarian there today and she mentioned what a drag it was to have the link one clicks on to get to an e-book look so nondescript. People never know where to click. Look at the image I’ve put here. Why would anyone ever think that clicking on “ebrary” would take them to the e-book? It’s ridiculous. It’s also already on the list ...
Source: Organization Monkey - July 8, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: e-resource mgmt Source Type: blogs
Proxy server anxiety dreams
On August 1 we will go live with a new proxy server, giving more reliable off-campus access to our licensed electronic resources. This means that during the month of July we’ll be changing every one of the URLs in our system, tens of thousands of them. We’re pretty organized but I can’t help but worry that a few URLs will slip through the cracks. Send us good vibes!
http://stripgenerator.com/strip/754601/anxiety-dreams (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - July 1, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: comic e-resource mgmt Source Type: blogs
The door’s locked
The door’s locked. — Ofelia
In that case, create your own door. — The faun
Pan’s Labyrinth (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - June 29, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: writing Source Type: blogs
ikea monkey air freshener
oh dear.
lingonberry scented? i can’t even.
http://www.neatoshop.com/product/Runaway-Monkey-Air-Freshener
related blog post about the ikea monkey: http://orgmonkey.net/?p=1591 (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - June 21, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs
