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This morning at 11am (after having catalogued church library books for 90min) I started a simple job.
- Add some notes to selected references in refworks
- Export the file
- Use the data for a mail merge to make a sheet for extracting data to.
30min tops. 40min if I faff with the mail merge.
FOUR HOURS LATER… I am just finished.
I’ve spend the whole day re-running database searches and documenting the results. I’ve now got 51 references from which to draw the initial pool of articles for review. In eight months of searches, both haphazard and more ordered, I’ve found a grand total of two, count them, two – papers that look directly at the content and structure of church websites.
STURGILL, A., 2004. Scope and purposes of church Web sites. Journal of Media and Religion, 3(3), pp. 165-176.
CARR, M., 2004. The use of online information sources as a tool for mission by Parish Churches. Journal of Religious and Theological Information, 6(2), pp. 51-85.
I’ve got 49 others that may well be useful, but this is it in terms of things that are directly related to my topic.
Why’s this a busman’s holiday? Because today is Saturday, and I frequently spend the day at work doing exactly this sort of thing.
