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Further to half_of_monty's posting of this link - I'm applying to do librarianship masters next year, because I am comfortable in this career direction for the next 5 or 10 years, unless something else throws itself into my path.

But I'm not comfortable with the fact that this means signing myself away to libraries for the next 40+ years, unless I can raise £15k!

My marvellous mum has talked me down from my panic, and made me realise that my job Right Now is just to make the best possible applications, and secure offers of places and scholarships and funding: that I don't really have to worry about these things until the summer.

But still - gah! Stupid fscking government! I am on a very short fuse at the moment anyway - don't seem to have energy to do anything that needs doing beyond work and sleep, and I'm using the little energy that's left over to stress about all the things I need to do rather than get them done - and have hurt sugar_and_space quite badly through inconsideration and irritability. I should not have to deal with this crap.

I'm aware that I'm being incredibly adolescent, pushing back at adult responsiblities with a cry of "don't wanna!". Humour me? Just a little?

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Ok, promise this is the last spam for today.. I'm all over lj at the moment it seems. This post wouldn't even be here if it weren't for insomnia, which I never ever ever suffer from. Ever.

... so what am I doing here?

Good question.

See, it turns out that the two degrees I'm trying to choose between - Information Systems and Library and Information Studies - are identical but for two pairs of modules. And it turns out that those two pairs of modules are roughly 50% identical.

Here are the only sections of the module specifications to differ at all:

LIS, Libraries past, present, and future: National and government libraries; Education libraries (academic, schools); Public libraries, library in society, community information; Special libraries, Future prospects for libraries and librarians; digital transition; library as place.

vs

IS Information Science foundation: Domain analysis; Bibliometrics; laws; analysis of literatures; Information analysis; competitive intelligence; Special libraries and information units; Information Science as a discipline and profession.

of this pair, I prefer LIS.

LIS Digital Libraries: Digital Library definitions, characteristics, features, issues; Digital Library design; collection management, digitisation, preservation; access and interfaces, inter-operability; services, trends, and developments.

IS Information Retrieval: Implementation of information retriecal systems. Distributed information retrieval. Models of information retrieval interacion. Non-text information retrieval. Current developments in information retrieval research.

of this pair, I prefer IS.

The degrees are practically identical so it really doesn't matter (matter matter matter matter) but I still can't decide. of course.

Oh, I'm just so contrary, me. Well, at least I have LJ and pitta bread. That's almost as good as sleep.