I’ve been back into the swing of things this week, including back to my full time schedule now that I have largely recovered from the initial accident. In this post, I’ll talk about how I use the pomodoro method and how I structure my day to get a lot done with less time. What is […]
When I was a student leader at ANU, we had a training session on self care. We were told about how we needed to take time for ourselves, to relax and look after ourselves. They proceeded to give examples. One of their examples, was cat videos. Is that really self care? I’ve noticed that’s a […]
Recently, ANU announced it was closing the Art and Music library branch. Of course, they have been very tight-lipped on the details, so we don’t know exactly what that entails. What we know is: that the physical location of the library will be repurposed into study spaces for students; some materials will be moved into ANU’s main Chifley Library, and the rest will be stored in a repository and can be borrowed by request online. I was very disheartened by this news, so I went on a big borrowing spree last week before the doors closed and borrowed about 30 books. Anything that looked remotely relevant to my research, I borrowed. Yes, I probably should have done this earlier anyway – I have typically done most of my research online, which I suspect is a reason for this decision. But as I’ll go on to explain, I think this is a short-sighted reason to close a library.