Christmas or Study?

December 14, 2009 at 7:01 pm | In Studies | Leave a Comment
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Probably not a difficult choice to make, but at this time of year it does seem like it is almost impossible to balance the two things and yet have an enjoyable Christmas.  But I guess it is excusable to take your foot off the pedal a little bit over the festive period.  It would be a pretty sorry state of affairs if you had to forego the Xmas build-up to work on an assignment.  Although having said that, it is probably less stressful than dealing with the hordes on the High Street.

The past year has certainly been a struggle.  Adapting to parenthood whilst trying to keep up with my studies and work full-time has been tricky.  I know from threads on various forums that there are plenty of others in the same boat, but it can still seem a struggle.  Time is of a premium and suddenly you realise that every spare moment is an opportunity to read a few pages, jot down a few notes, search for some articles……The only thing is it takes so damn long to realise it.  You think that just a little bit here and there on days off will help, but then you realise you want to spend your days off with your offspring as you are at work most of the time.  It’s at this point you realise that you need to use your ’spare’ time wisely and effectively.  If not, you can easily slip behind.

I had a spell a little while back when I thought I was never going to make any progress.  I think it was just after completing the Information Retrieval module.  Although I received encouraging marks, it seemed like some of the motivation had ebbed away. This wasn’t helped by not attending a study school for some time. Missing a study school sure makes you appreciate that extra boost they can give you. It’s the one chance you get to really talk to other students and discover that you are not actually as far behind as you feared.  And that is always a good thing to discover!

Anyway, things are moving on now. The Collection Management module is in the bag (although heaven knows what mark I will get!), and Research in the Profession is almost complete.  Suddenly thoughts are turning to the dissertation and the next study school and there is a sense of relief that I have made it through a difficult stage in my studies to a better place.  I am even thinking that I can look forward to this Xmas without having to worry about being behind on assignments and sitting in front of a computer screen on Boxing Day, frantically typing away.  Happy days.

As for Xmas itself, I am really looking forward to getting hold of my new toy. We decided this year to cut down on spending on each other and focus buying presents for our daughter (seems harsh not to!).  So this year we have bought a Kodak Zi8 HD pocket video camera to share between ourselves.  The reviews look pretty good, so I look forward to messing around with it and making full use of my YouTube account (which has only been used sporadically up until now).  I’ll have to try to write a post about it once I have had a chance to play….but then I have said that before and not bothered!  I’ll try to make a bit more effort this time.

Plodding Along, Singing a Song, Walking in a Aber Wonderland

November 2, 2009 at 6:07 pm | In Studies | 4 Comments
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Well, as I have said before, studying has been a bit hard going since the birth of our daughter six months ago (the fastest six months of my life!).  I have found it particularly hard to strike the right balance between studying for my course, and fulfilling my responsibilities as a parent.  This has become increasingly difficult over recent weeks as my daughter has started to slip into a regular sleeping pattern.  Until recently, she usually went to sleep quite late and would normally be awake to greet me when I got in from work.  Just recently, however, she has started going to bed much earlier and there have been many occasions when I don’t see her at all when I get in from work.  As a result of this, I tend to try and spend as much time as possible with her on my days off.  Unfortunately, these were the days that I used to do the large bulk of my studying.  I find it quite hard to study in the evening when I get in from work, it’s very hard to concentrate on studying after a busy day in the library.  I try to do at least an hour in the evening whenever I can, but it is not the same as dedicating a day to some serious study.

Due to the studying I need to do, and the decreased time in which to do it, I have had to cut some things out of my personal life for the short-term.  For example, I used to play football every Tuesday night without fail for the best part of 16 years.  I have temporarily stopped going now whilst I use the extra time this gives me to catch up on my studies and get some serious work done.  Sadly this has had an impact on my rapidly expanding waistline…by the time I get back to playing football I could well be subject to ‘who ate all the pies?’ type chants.  Not good for the old self-esteem!  Depressing though this is (it’s amazing what kicking a ball around can do for your stress levels!), it was a necessary move to give me just a little more time.

My progress has not been helped by the two modules I have been working on: Collection Management and Research in the Profession.  Yep, I thought Information Retrieval was a tricky module to plough through.  I think I can safely file these on the shelf marked ‘irksome’ (there’s an underused word!).  To be fair, I don’t know if that is down to the content of the modules, or just my state of mind whilst trying to complete them.  In fact I should find the Collection Management module very interesting as I have been doing a lot of work related to this module in recent months.  Maybe it is my state of mind. Anyway, I think the end of the tunnel may be within sight.  After some fairly arduous drafting (I’m sure it wasn’t this difficult on previous assignments!), I think I am almost at a point where I can stuff my assignment in an envelope and pass it onto the Royal Mail.  Here’s hoping anyway.

Once the Collection Management module has been sent off, I just have the Research in the Profession module to complete before moving on to the optional modules.  Easier said than done, but I aim to get both complete by the end of the month.  I’ve just got to the point now where maybe it won’t hurt to send-off a couple of duff assignments.  After all, I understand that getting good marks in the coursework is not as important as getting a good mark on the dissertation so maybe that should be my priority.  I am fortunate enough to be in quite a good position at the moment in terms of marks so surely a few sub-60s aren’t going to hurt are they??  I think I have been saddled with this ‘must maintain good scores’ mentality when what I should really be doing is getting the assignments done and focus my energies on researching for a good, solid dissertation.  It all seems so easy when you written down.  If only putting that into practice was as easy!

Getting Back on the Horse

September 2, 2009 at 10:01 pm | In Studies | 2 Comments
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Studying has been a little tricky of late (and blogging for that matter) due to a number of factors however, I am really determined now to up the pace and get back on course.  My progress wasn’t helped by my desktop packing up and deciding it had had enough.  This put a real crimp on my studies especially as I hadn’t backed up my data for a little while (a cardinal sin I know).  Although we have a laptop, this is not ideal as typing for long periods can be very uncomfortable (I have actually had to invest in some wrist supports for my newly repaired desktop as I have been feeling a little pain in my wrists – hopefully it will fade….).  However, the lack of a desktop did highlight one utility I had hitherto overlooked – cloud computing.  I will certainly look into using Google Docs a lot more often in the future (as well as instigating a cast iron back-up routine using my external hard drive), and I would certainly recommend it anyone that hasn’t used it (although I have some reservations).

Anyway, as well as increasing the pace on my studies, I will be aiming to blog a little more often than I have been recently.  Scrub that, I will be blogging more regularly.  There is certainly plenty of interestto discuss at the moment. Conservative policy towards libraries, the recent comments by James Murdoch about BBC and what his intentions mean for the information society not to mention the recent price reduction of the Sony Reader and Sony’s announcement of new models.  With all that to mull over, I should have plenty to blog about!

The Diversions of Life

June 20, 2009 at 12:57 pm | In Studies | 4 Comments
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I’ve not been able to post on here quite as frequently as I would have liked for the past few weeks.  The birth of my daughter has meant that my time has been squeezed in all manner of ways.  Unfortunately, my daughter had to be delivered by caesarian section and, consequently, my wife was made to rest for six weeks whilst she recovered from the operation.  Obviously, this meant that I needed to up my share of the daily chores to allow my wife to get the necessary recuperation time. 

As well as impacting on my social time (which isn’t really that important in the grand scheme of things), it has hsad a massive impact on my studies.  I knew a while back that the baby was due in April, so I should have been well prepared for the impact that would have on my life and studies.  Sadly, I underestimated by quite some way.  I foolishly believed that I could take a couple of weeks out to spend time with my family, before burrowing my head back in the books and cracking on with my studying.  What an idiot.

It is now around eight weeks since the birth of our lovely little girl, and still I am struggling.  The first six weeks were obviously a write-off (for the reasons outlined above), but the past couple of weeks have been tricky too.  I don’t think it helps that my current module (Research in the Profession) is particularly heavy going.  I have been reading core texts,  journal articles and the module pack time and time again and, for whatever reason, it is getting very difficult to make the information stick.  Every time I feel like I have had a eureka moment, I realise that there was something else I misunderstood.  To be honest, it is easy to see why I have been struggling.  Let’s face it what would you rather do?  Spend some time with your newborn child, or read up on qualitative and quantitative research?  Bit of a no-brainer, don’t you think?

And yet, study I must.  I desperately want to complete the course so that I can delete the square brackets from the blog’s title.  This means that I have to get some focus and get on with the outstanding assignments.  The sooner I can get the modules done, the sooner I can spend quality time with my daughter.  It seems so easy when you write it down.  Get focus.  Complete assignments. Simples (as that irritating meerkat advert might say).  Maybe it is that easy.  I’ll let you know after the week-end.

Cataloguing – The Fear Fades

April 12, 2009 at 2:21 pm | In Studies | 5 Comments
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For about five months I had been working on the cataloguing module for my course.  It was, without doubt, the single most difficult module that I have done to date.  Both the assignments filled me with dread when I first saw the outlined requirements.  The first of the two assignments in particular had caused me a great deal of stress and fretting.  Even the advice of colleagues had failed to relieve the stress I was feeling about completing this module.  It was, in short, a nightmare.

One of the main reasons for finding this topic so daunting was that I am not currently involved in cataloguing in any way, shape or form.  Consequently, the subject was a bit of a mystery to me. Much of the reading made little sense to me (although I am sure it did to those who have more experience of the subject) and, quite frankly, I was dreading working on the assignments as I feared that I would be found out at last.  A fraud amongst librarians. An impostor attempting to muscle his way in to an exclusive club populated by people who understand Library of Congress Subject Headings and suchlike.

The assignment that had me particularly vexed required the analysis of a number of different types of records.  One from an OPAC, one from a printed catalogue and one example from a full-text search (eg via an internet search).  It was then necessary to create our own record and suggest a suitable retrieval system that could be used in conjunction with it.  Having only ever used Dewey Decimal (and with only a rudimentary understanding of that), the thought of trying to comprehend another system caused palpitations.  How on earth was I even going to attempt to do this one??

As is now the norm, I finally went for it and made my way through at least six different drafts.  At each re-drafting I found myself analysing what I had written so much, that I began to lose sight of what was actually required.  I had begun to over-complicate the assignment itself and was tying myself in knots.  Heaven knows how many emails I fired off to the module coordinator – no doubt enough to have her tearing her hair out!  I don’t know why I always end up doing the same.  Maybe because at the back of mind I am thinking that as it is a Masters, the answer must be more complex than my initial gut reaction suggests.  Still, nothing wrong with a healthy bout of self-doubt.

Eventually I got to the point where I just needed to send it off and keep my fingers crossed.  Otherwise I could see myself re-drafting for all eternity.  Chipping away at a little bit here, a little bit there, (foolishly) hoping for perfection.  I never took such an approach when studying for my undergraduate degree.  I simply handed in first drafts time and time again.  This perhaps explains my new found dedication.  I still feel I underachieved first time around, so here is my chance to prove that that degree was no mere fluke…I actually might just have been worthy of it (just).

So anyway, I received my marks the other day and was quite frankly shocked to see that not only did I score over 70%, I scored over 70% for the whole module.  Needless to say I opened a (very small) beer to celebrate.  What is particularly pleasing on a personal level is that I never scored above 68% on my first degree (and I only achieved that twice).  So far on this course, I have hit over 70% on at least six assignments – something I never could have imagined when I started the course as although I always wanted to go on and complete a post-grad, I always had the nagging doubt that I was not capable.  As I have said before, I have always felt that at some point someone is going to turn around and call my bluff.  That eventually someone is going to ask the question: how did I slip the net?  Maybe one day they will.

Anyway, as time is progressing I am giving more and more serious thought about the possibility of a doctorate at some point in the future.  Given my background, it would be a dream to be in a position to do so.  I certainly don’t want to get to the end of my studies and then come to an abrupt halt.  I am seriously interested in working on some studies and conducting some research when I do complete the course.  Maybe I need to get out more, but I do actually quite enjoy studying.  Now I know there is definitely something wrong with me!  I really must get out more………

The Problem With Academia

March 17, 2009 at 10:36 pm | In Studies | 11 Comments
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Now, I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent person.  Not particularly clever, but not especially stupid either.  However, sometimes language employed by academics really drives me up the wall.  From time to time, certain academics seem to employ the language in a rather exclusive manner that can only be understood by fellow academics.  It’s a bit like a secret language knowingly shared amongst intellectuals to exclude those unworthy of their high prose.  Take this example from an article that I have been reading today:

Now, finally, the variance of a group is the mean sum of squared deviations from the mean (∑fd²/N), and it is a property of variances that the variance of samples added together is equal to the sum of the variances calculated from the samples independently.

I lost count of the amount of times I read the passage of text before I finally understood what on earth it actually meant.  Maybe it was because I had spent all day studying and my brain was flagging.  Maybe it is because I am just not that bright.  Or maybe it is simply because the writer has indulged in the aforementioned ‘academic speak’ that I loath so intently.  For the record, I tend to think it is the latter…..although if anyone thinks I am being a bit dim, feel free to say so in the comments – I won’t hold it against you!

Personally, I have always subscribed to the view that all academic writing should be inclusive rather than exclusive.  I am not impressed by writers who stick to this academic code that excludes those without an ‘education’.  I have always been more impressed with the style employed by academics such as Noam Chomsky.  That is to say, using simple language that everyone can understand without employing language that excludes a large percentage of the population.  To my mind, it takes greater skill to communicate complicated ideas in simple language, than to employ language aimed solely at academics.  But then what do I know?  It took me half an hour to understand what the quote above actually meant.

Time To Up The Pace

January 15, 2009 at 8:04 pm | In Studies | 2 Comments
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Well, here I am, the wrong side of Christmas and the realisation hits me that I need to up my pace pretty radically.  I have been working on the same module since the middle of September and it feels like I am never going to get it finished.  Although I have pretty much maintained the same pace as last year, it is really not fast enough.  To attend the study school in April I needed to complete three modules (only needed to get two done last year) and I haven’t even done two yet.  This further complicated by the fact that I am going to be a father in April, so I won’t be going to the study school in April anyway.  Unfortunately, this has had the psychological impact of making me think I have more time than I really have and meaning I have taken my foot off the peddle a bit. Problem is I need to get those three modules done by June if I am to go to study school in September, which is an absolute necessity.  With a baby due in April, the next few months are going to be very stressful.

But I guess I am not alone and, so long as I spend as much time as possible on my studies, I should be ok.  The main problem is the fact that I have ‘the fear’.  The fear of sending off those assignments when they aren’t quite right yet.  The fear of sending off those assignments and failing.  The fear that I will be found out.  The fear that I am not really cut out for this librarian malarky.  But I guess the fear is just that.  Fear.  Sometimes you need to bite the bullet, face down your fears and get those assignments sent off.  I mean, they can’t really be that bad, can they?

 

Anyways, here’s a little ditty on Web 2.0 and the iPhone.  Enjoy.

 

Christmas Study and E-Book Readers

December 6, 2008 at 1:54 pm | In Gadgets | Leave a Comment
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Christmas.  A time for worrying about just how you are going to get any assignments done amongst all the revelry (note to self – you’re not so deal with it).  Just the thought of doing the xmas shop, writing out the obligatory cards, wrapping presents, arranging the whole family thing etc etc, brings me out in a cold sweat.  How can I cope with all this and still get any studying done?  I have visions of spending Boxing Day sitting at my desk reading yet another journal article about ‘controlled vocabularies’ and what a depressing vision that is.  But still, ’tis the season to be jolly and all that, so best get festive and get on with it.

Of course, there are the inevitable benefits to the xmas period.  Gifts mainly (yes, I am that shallow).  One of the things that I have been looking at is the new Sony e-book reader (the Sony Reader Digital Book PRS505S).  I have been quite positive about ebooks for sometime now.  Although I am not convinced that they will make the old fashioned paperback obsolete (they won’t), I think they will become a useful alternative.  Certainly the technology seems to be improving all the time and it is a matter of when, not if, they produce a popular piece of kit that will really fly off the shelves (the Amazon Kindle seems to have had that reaction in the US – when is a UK release likely?).

Luckily, I had a chance to have a look at one in my nearest Waterstones (which used to be an Ottakar’s – ah the good old days) and I was quite impressed.   Although there was a bit of a delay between page turns, it was relatively easy to read (it isn’t backlit, the main cause of eye strain when reading from electrical devices) and was simple to navigate.  The biggest drawback?  No wi-fi connection.  Consequently, you need to hook it up to your PC and then transfer the files across.  A bit of a shame in these wi-fi times, but not entirely inconvenient.  However, wi-fi functionality will surely become standard.  The ability to download books direct to your e-reader (as well as the ability to add RSS feeds) would surely make any e-reader a desirable piece of kit.  As the Sony reader does not have this capability, I think it is likely to be obsolete relatively quickly.  This does not mean that it is not worth purchasing.

For me, an e-reader would be a very useful piece of equipment.  I frequently travel (my wife is Spanish) and this creates a number of problems with my studies.  It is simply not practical for me to take my module pack, plus my core texts, plus any useful e-journals I have found, on a plane.  I would barely have enough room for my clothes!  An e-book reader, however, would eliminate that problem.  With the ability to download hundreds of titles onto one machine, I could simply send any e-journals to the reader and take it away with me.  Thus ensuring that, even when I am away on holiday, I can still read those articles that would otherwise be waiting for me on my return (causing me no end of stress by forcing me to confront the amount of study time I have lost).  Whether this is entirely a good thing is, I guess, a bit of a moot point.  After all, shouldn’t I be relaxing on holiday?

I think there is some reluctance in public libraries to take the plunge and make ebooks available to the public (understandable given the fact that it would rely on tax payers money), but I think the time is drawing nearer for e-books to really take-off.  We are edging ever closer to affordable, practical, readable e-book readers and it is essential that public libraries are ready to meet the demand.  Public libraries are already facing challenges in a digital world, the failure to prepare for the inevitable will see their relevance challenged to an ever greater degree.

Days of Study

November 25, 2008 at 11:10 pm | In Studies | 4 Comments
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I am fortunate enough to get one day of study leave every fortnight whilst completing my course.  This is a really big help as trying to balance a full-time job and studying an MSc is no easy task.  Initially I thought I would prefer to have my fees covered by my employer, but over time I have to admit I actually prefer to get the time instead.  As well as studying throughout the week, it is a massive help to have a whole day with which I can focus on my studies.  It has certainly has paid off as I have been fortunate enough to have received marks for my assignments that I never would have expected.  I certainly believe that these study days have played an important role in my achievements on the course so far.

Having said that, sometimes study days can be a bit of a drag.  I tend to start and end my day as if I was at work, so I start at 9am and finish at 5pm (although recently I have been working right through to 6pm – glutton for punishment or what!?).  The entire day is spent indoors ploughing through the module pack or doing research for assignments.  It can get a little draining.  I keep telling myself that I should break my day up into little chunks to make the workload more manageable (this would seem to be a very sound idea when studying Information Retrieval!).  But, despite my better judgement, I end up having very few breaks throughout the day, mainly for fear that my mind will wonder and never return (there are just too many distractions out there – particularly when your course revolves around the internet, perhaps the biggest distraction ever invented). 

Despite the hard slog, I do tend to break for lunch and tea breaks across the day.  During one of these breaks I tend to take a short walk to my local shop to buy my newspaper and a few supplies.  I say supplies, they normally consist of a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch (prefer the Flamin’ Hot ones personally, but hey), a bar of chocolate and, the brain food to end all brain foods, a Pot Noodle (curry flavour).  There is nothing better to get the mind going than a good old fashioned Pot Noodle.  I know some people say it is best to eat healthy when studying as the vitamins and minerals help the mind to conentrate.  Well, for me, it’s a Pot Noodle every time (although sometimes tea and crumpets is a big help!).  Having bought my supplies I settle back into the routine and make time for a break later in the day.

Despite my best laid plans, every now and then you just have a bad day studying.  Take today for example.  I spent the best part of the morning thinking of ways to approach my assignment.  The real bugger was that the opening I had come up with was exactly the same as an article I had found.  Try as I might, I couldn’t get it out of my head.  And I knew I had to as, well, the author of said article just so happens to be the very person to mark it.  Plagiarism is frowned on at the best of times, let alone when you have plagiarised the person who is marking your work.  Very poor form.

So anyway, I wrote one draft.  Stopped.  Paced around my house reading through other articles that I had found.  Started writing again.  Stopped.  This was getting me nowhere.  Don’t you just hate first drafts?  Whenever you read them back, they always cause you to think you are losing it.  Did I really write that?  But it’s so bad.  Am I a fraud?  Will I get found out?  Will someone turn around and say that I have been rumbled and I never had the capability in the first place?  So many doubts.  So many worries.  So few words written on the page.  Don’t you just hate writer’s block?  Not even a curry Pot Noodle can help me now.

And then, after hours of ‘freewriting’, tearing out hair and chowing down on some comfort food, you get that ‘eureka!’ moment.  Suddenly, you find an article that really hits the spot.  Inspires you.  Urges you on.  Suddenly you feel energised.  Determined.  You’re back in the game.  You don’t want to stop.  It feels so good you just want to keep typing and typing until you get that first draft finished.  Then you have something to play with.  Then you have something to mould.  Then you have…….something.  And boy does that feel good.  And then you look up and see that it is 6pm and you have to be somewhere.  Just when you thought it was going to be the longest study day of your life, it’s over.  Study days eh?  Where would I be without them?  A lot more stressed but about a stone lighter.  It’s amazing what those Pot Noodles do to your waistline you know.

“What’s That Coming Over The Hill….”

November 10, 2008 at 4:56 pm | In Non-Library | 4 Comments
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What’s that they say about best laid plans?  Something about them not quite working out if my memory serves me right.  After just over a year of hard slog on my studies, suddenly my whole life is on the verge of changing forever and I am suddenly confronted with the notion that my studies are going to become a heck of a lot more, er, ‘problematic’.  I (well, that should really be ‘we’) have recently discovered that my wife is pregnant and is due to give birth in April next year.  Despite the impression you may have received from the opening few lines, we are both ecstatic about the future addition to our household.  We had both decided that, after a couple of years of travelling around and enjoying a lack of serious responsibility (well, if you discount the mortgage anyway), now was the time to start a family.  Whether we are ready for it yet or not is an entirely separate matter (is anyone really ready?).

Of course, working in the ‘information industry’ I have already picked up several books from work (public libraries – they really are ‘da bomb’).  It’s amazing how much information is out there, well for the female of the species anyway.  For the men……not so much.  I hunted and hunted and most of the books I found were on the blokey end of the spectrum (note to self – an opportunity to finally write that book??).  The kind where the man sees his partner’s ‘bump’ as a handy place to rest his pint.  Not for me.  Thankfully I picked up a rather interesting title that avoids all the blokey cliches, whilst also providing a definitively male perspective on proceedings.   Should you or your wife fall pregnant, I would certainly recommend it as a valuable guide.

I also picked up a valuable book that strips out all of the marketing spiel about the things you ‘must have’ for your future addition.  The Which? Guide to Baby and Toddler Essentials advises you on what you really need and identifies the unnecessary tat that parents are told they must have (usually by the people that make them funnily enough).  Although we are not intending to purchase any ‘essentials’ just yet, it will certainly assist us in the minefield that is ‘Mothercare’.

Anyway, aside from the sudden ‘oh lordy, responsibility’ reaction, I have been slowly realising the massive impact that this will have on my studies.  Gone will be the peaceful evenings reading journal articles about ‘user-interface frameworks’ and ‘folksonomies’ (although peaceful is probably stretching it a little).  In their place evenings spent cleaning bottoms and dealing with various bodily fluids.  Things are definitely going to get more difficult.

But it is not just the sudden impact on the studying, it is the social aspect of it.  The course itself has enabled me to relive my undergraduate days via the annual study school.  Ostensibly it was an opportunity to attend lectures and air any grievances with the course.  In reality it was just an excuse to experience the pubs in Aberystwyth and ‘blow the cobwebs away’.  As a result of these study days I have met a number of people that I would consider to be good friends (whether they would think so is a different matter…) who have also helped to keep me motivated at times when I thought I was out of my depth or losing my marbles (meanwhile, they were losing the will to live with my continual calls for help).  Interestingly, my two closest friends on the course are also in various stages of fatherhood.  One has recently become a father and the other is also due to become a dad shortly before I am.  There must have been something in the water at Aber.  Helpfully, the new dad has also set up a blog on his experiences during the pregnancy and fatherhood in general so I should get a good idea of the impact this happy event will have on my attempts to study.

Sadly, I will be unable to attend the study school set for April 2009 so it looks like I will no longer experience lectures whilst suffering an epic hangover.  Shame really as I think I will probably need it.  Yep, life is certainly going to change.  Although I will, of course, still find time to write a blog I’m sure.  As for the studying, I guess I’ll just have to be focused, dedicated, determined……oh bugger.

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