{"id":2006,"date":"2010-06-07T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T04:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2010-06-07T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T04:53:46","slug":"handing-in-my-thesis-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/handing-in-my-thesis-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Handing in my thesis tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I print out the final version of my thesis to hand in tomorrow. After 18 months of living with it is a great relief. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m not sick of the topic. The idea that librarians are getting out there and developing their own software and sharing it is still very, very exciting to me. When I compare my findings to the other scant literature about motivations for organisations to develop Open Source, it looks like libraries do have different reasons – less focus on economics and more on functionality. After so long with the same topic, though, \u00a0I have lost the ability to critically look at my research and how I’m expressing it.<\/p>\n

It is not a full Master’s thesis, just a way to top-up my Post Graduate Diploma to a Master of Information Management, designed to be finished in 6 months full-time. I’m so, so glad that the VALA Travel Scholarship<\/a> gave me the chance to travel through the US and meet so many fantastic library heroes and be welcomed so warmly by them. As you can see from this embedded video of the Gables Bed and Breakfast in Philidelphia<\/a>, I suffered great physical deprivation in the name of research:<\/p>\n

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I am not sure that I have the energy right now to continue further research into the topic, but there are questions I am itching for someone to find answers to… like:<\/p>\n