Very gratified to have a doctoral researcher come and see me today.

An unusual event in itself as they seem to manage quite happily without me for the most part. But this one was looking at social networking and library use of it. I understand he was a librarian back in Africa, so that might explain his interest.

He'd not only found (and apparently read!) the papers I'd written which are stored in our institutional repository and found several more that exist online in various places, but he wanted all the rest which aren't either online or in the IR.

So it was a good opportunity to tidy up my bibliography which I was surprised to find now runs to 4 pages (not to mention the further 8 pages of non-professional material). I know it's been a busy year, but it's interesting to see how it builds up and how one thing leads to another.

(If anyone does have nothing better to do with their lives, get in touch and I can send you the list).

Anyway, as I said, it was very gratifying to think that anyone was actually interested. Anyone that I hadn't battered over the head with the stuff, that is.