Getting towards the deadline- ALSR

It is getting towards the deadline but it does not mean that i am about to complete the paper yet . At the last minute, thought the paper would not be complete if there was not a survey for the staff to voice out their comments. Use surveymonkey and got one done still took more than 2 hours though.

Snail progress -ALSR

Another week of reading and writing, each time when I opened the file and started to read from the first paragraph, I felt that I could add some more info. and this has slowed down my progress. I now learned to go straight to the end where I last stop and start from there.

I felt that I have comitted to a much bigger job that I had forseen, there were such a lot of information out there regarding Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. With the convenice of seamless linking from one article to another reference, from one blog post to the other, some times the time just slipped away so fast that I could imagine.May be I was a slower reader !

I promised the family that I would be back to cook dinner, almost wanted to ring and asked them to get take away but felt that was not fair to them. So thought to finish off and jot a few words of how I was feeling at this stage. Hope I could be more productive tomorrow

ALSR Conference

To observe the deadline for submitting the paper, I have taken a week off from 18th Jan to 22nd Jan. As it coincides with school holiday in WA, I mainly stayed home to do a bit of reading and most of the times doing a few things with my only kid. By late afternoon, aftter I had done my chores, my husband took over the responsibility to look after the little one and I went back to Library to continue with my reading and writing journey.

Too much distraction at home, this includes the opening week of Australian Open.

The weather this week was shockingly hot. We had three consecutive days of over 42 degrees.

Before the x'mas break I used the BONUS and the Document Delivery services to get a nubmer of books as I need to learn more about the background knowledge of 23 Things or Web 2.0 or Library 2.0. And each day I detailed some key points of what I learnt from the books and then checked on references as to read more online open access or journals subscribed by Murdoch.

It is the fifth day since I have started to prepare for the paper. Today I went back to my orginal blog to see what I wrote in 2007 and what I could extract to be put into the conference paper and thought I should detail a few lines to provide an account of this journey of writing up the very conference paper.

Two days altogether I managed to put together around 1500 words.