Contemplative Reading
January 22, 2012
This term I’m on leave from teaching classes, in order to focus on my own studies. I’m working towards the Upgrade from MPhil to PhD, with the smaller (but important) deadline of the Progress Review approaching fast.
There’s still marking, of course, and meetings with personal tutees, and dissertation supervision. Students on the MA LIS undertake a piece of student-led research which is examined for the MA. (Students who complete only the taught element of the course finish earlier and are awarded a Postgraduate Certificate).
In general, though, the order of each day at the moment is contemplative reading and writing. I’ve had wonderful meetings this week with colleagues and current dissertation students, but in the main it’s just me, the books and the computer screen.
And the final proofs of Practical Cataloguing are here.
Definitely, therefore, all about the reading.
