Daily Thoughts 1/18/2011 (What Technology Wants, Job Search)

Paper cut, Therese Huber, Louise Duttenhofer 1776-1829

Daily Thoughts 1/18/2011

I read some more of What Technology Wants.  Kevin Kelly is comparing convergent evolution and convergent invention.  The idea of convergent invention is that often more than one person invents a new technology at the same time.  There are many examples of this from the telephone to the electric light bulb.  Kevin Kelly also describes how many technologies are predicted like the video phone which are predicted but when they become available, people are not interested in them.  I've found the book useful for its different take on technology.

Today, I tried a new program on Job Search sites, but it did not have much attendance.  People were more interested in the handouts on the different websites that are available to search for jobs in Westchester and the books on job searching than the computer lab session.  I'll probably have to make more of them.

We are planning a senior visit from the Armory next month.  It will be a way to offer older people access to the library now that the bookmobile is gone because of lack of funding.

I also spent some time on orders today.  It was interesting looking through the patron recommendations for books and other items from both our website and the collection management form we keep at the desk.  I will be ordering music for the first time.  I spent some time looking at music from the Billboard list.

Web Bits

An article on Weightless Books from Publishers Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/45783-weightless-books-an-e-bookstore-for-indie-presses.html
I saw Weightless Books at the Brooklyn Book Festival.  They were part of Small Beer Press.  I like their approach which is very independent.

A national survey on budgets and staffing in libraries in the United States.  http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/newslettersnewsletterbucketljxpress/888434-441/ljs_2010_budget_survey_bottoming.html.csp

This quote from the article says it all.  "Nonetheless, the overall trend in FY10 was a brutal grasping by money-starved government officials for the low-hanging fruit of library budgets: 72 percent of survey respondents said their budget had been cut, and 43 percent had staff cuts."

Daily Thoughts 9/15/2010 (Ordering, Business, Books)

Szymon Buchbinder, The Astronomer , Date Unknown, Oil On Panel 

Daily Thoughts 9/15/2010

I won a book from one of the exhibitors at the Brooklyn Book Festival, For Beginner Books
http://www.forbeginnersbooks.com/catalog.html  The book which I chose was Barack Obama for Beginners by Bob Neer.  It will be added to the libraries collection.




Today has been fairly busy.  We had an ordering meeting for the library this afternoon.  I put all of my orders in.  I also had the graphic novels club this afternoon which went well.  We are getting a steady small group of people who are attending.  We are having an author talk this evening as well. 




I also finished putting together the business resources list for the library.  There will be other resource lists that we will create as well.   We also did a bookmark of books on starting a business recently. There is going to be a business expo on the 22nd and 23rd of September sponsored by the city.  There is also a Business Resource list which we added to the Community Links on our website. We are having the Women's Enterprise Development Center do a presentation on starting a business tonight.  http://www.wedc-westchester.org/  This is the third year that the Women's Enterprise Development Center  has been coming to our library.   Hopefully, this will strengthern our contacts with local businesses and businesses organizations.




Two books came in for me to look at, Clementine by Cherie Priest and the social media marketing book by Dan Zarella.




I have started reading Rework by Jason Fried and David Hansson.  I think it will take a while for me to think over what they are writing.

Daily Thoughts 9/10/2010 (Books, Ordering, Libraries, Newspapers)

Gustav Wentzel, norwegian painter, 1859-1927, Frokost II / Morgenstemning (breakfast II / morning mood) , 1885, National Gallery, Oslo. 




Daily Thoughts 9/10/2010

The Wall Street Journal is launching a book review section http://www.observer.com/2010/media/wall-street-journal-will-launch-book-review-section




The New York Times will go digitally only soon. I can see people paying for a print on demand if they still want a paper version, but mostly digital only. This is the wave of the future. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/09/arthur-sulzberger-we-will_n_710251.html

My book bag is full of books now.  I am still reading Common As Air, but I am also reading Self Esteem Third Edition by Matthew McKay, Ph.D.  This is mainly a workbook.  There are a variety of exercises on how to redirect your thoughts.  One of them which I liked quite a bit was to write down all the positive and negative aspects about yourself, then change the negative aspects into neutral factual statements, and finally combine everything into a more positive description of yourself.  I also have started on Social Media 101 by Chris Brogan.  I am reading three books at this time.  I have two more to read later, Rework by Jason Fried and  David Heinemeier Hansson, and Zero History by William Gibson.

Another book also came in for me to read, The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee it is a mass market paperback.  Jeff Vandermeer reviewed it in the New York Times Book Review.

I have been doing some ordering.  I noticed a few books of interest.  The one that caught my attention most was Djibouti by Elmore Leonard.  It is a crime novel about modern day Somali pirates.

On the way home, I read some more of Common As Air by Lewis Hyde.  There is a quote which I find especially interesting from Noah Webster in the book, "Nothing is more dangerous to liberty than the power of entailed art and ideas."

I finished adding August and September of 2008 book reviews to my book reviews list.

Daily Thoughts 7/21/2010

The British Museum's Enlightenment Room is a display dedicated to the age of Enlightenment. Separated into the various arts and sciences, there are books, fossils and statues on display, along with examples of earthenware and metalwork, which try to explain how pieces were viewed and collected at the time.

Creative Commons Share Alike Attribution 2.0, 5 June 2010(2010-06-05), 12:31, By Mendhak from Wikimedia.

Daily Thoughts 7/21/2010

PLA is offering a free online advocacy training course for libraries. I started on the course this morning. http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/pla-offers-free-online-library-advocacy-training

Today has been quite busy. I started off by taking care of my orders. Then we had an order meeting where everyone did a round robin of what they planned on ordering. One of our colleagues discussed plans to hang pictures and paintings from our local history collection throughout the building which will be a very nice touch. We have old maps, photographs, and paintings from Westchester County. I think it will be a nice improvement for the building.

I also did a graphic novels club which went fairly well. We had a number of people who came to ask for different graphic novels. Many people still like the old fashioned Marvel comics. Manga has become the most popular form of graphic novels at our library. I like to add associated material, dvds of films based on graphic novels, anime, how to draw comics, how to write comics, storyboarding, animation, and fashion drawing. I am going to ask some people to bring their drawings next time. It might change the focus a bit to make it a little more than reading and discussing comics.

I barely had time to do the session on readers advisory tonight. I was pulled into helping with an author talk which is happening today by Kellye Davis author of The Bliss Principle who is a local author.

We also have the Board Meeting for the Board of Trustees tonight starting at 6:30 p.m., so there is a lot of activity tonight which is rather interesting.

On the train to work, I started reading Digital Photography For Dummies, 6th Edition
by Julie Adair King and Serge Timacheff. It is a practical book. There is a brief mention of Picasa which is a web editor for photographs created by Google. There is a Picasa album for this blog which shows all the photographs on this blog.

Daily Thoughts 7/1/2010

Leo Tolstoy and his private secretary Valentin Bulgakov, 1910

Daily Thoughts 7/1/2010

Today we spent some time with our SIRSI library catalog learning how to do the on order status. It allows us to use EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) to place orders from our different vendors. This will allow us to place orders from BWI, Midwest Tape, and Baker and Taylor through a single system. It will also help us with duplication issues and budgeting.

We also spent some time talking about the summer reading program for adults. Things are moving along very steadily.

My concentration is not as good as usual. Our library is facing budget shortfalls and it may affect me directly. There could be layoffs and other issues. I will know tomorrow. We already circulated a petition for signatures to keep the library open.

I logged into the Readers Advisory 101 course today for the first time. My focus is a little better today.

Daily Thoughts 5/5/2010

Library of Congress Building, Washington DC. From postcard 1910 or before. Library postcards are a popular item. It is fairly easy to get postcards of old libraries. I used to see them when I went to flea markets looking for comics and old science fiction books.

Daily Thoughts 5/5/2010

The April 26, 2010 issue of Publishers Weekly is the Book Expo America issue. I made a quick pass through it today. I'll probably look at it closer a little later on. There was an interesting article on bookstores in New York. I was especially intrigued by Idlewild Books http://www.idlewildbooks.com/ which is a bookstore focused on world literature and travel literature which is a very nice combination. I might go over to the shop to look at their books on learning foreign languages. This is the first time I have seen foreign language courses taught in a bookstore.

Today was a pleasant day. I had a chance to get my orders ready for next week as well as make a few suggestions to other people. We break up our ordering among a variety of staff and assign them different sections of the dewey decimal system and fiction.

I also spent some more time thinking about what I might be doing in the next few weeks.

On the train home, I finished reading Making Ideas Happen. This is a book trailer for the book. It is a piece of creative advertising.

Daily Thoughts 4/13/2010

Goya, Reading. 1820-1821. Oil on plaster mounted on canvas, 126 x 66 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Daily Thoughts 4/13/2010

I read some more of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks. Agatha Christie would arrange her plot outlines using an initial alphabetical format, then switch the sections around. I found it interesting that in addition to plays and radio plays, she would also arrange mystery treasure hunts.

Today has been another quiet steady day. I picked up books for the Bookmobile which goes out on April 14, 2010. People wanted books on the navy, treasure diving, art, books by Anne Coulter, Danielle Steel, Nicholas Sparks, and romantic biographies. Comfortable books to reminesce on. They also wanted romance audiobooks, biographical audiobooks, and videos of masterpiece theatre mysteries like Miss Marple or Inspector Lewis.

I also placed orders for graphic novels. I looked at the Diamond Comic Distributors bestseller list and New York Times graphic novel bestseller list to pick out some popular graphic novels. Stephenie Meyers has a Twilight graphic novel and there is a Halo Helljumpers graphic novel written by Peter David.

I also spent some time looking at the Indienext Bestseller List and the Bestselling Science Fiction titles list from Locus Magazine this morning this morning as well as the Staff Picks section online on the Strand Bookstore and Powells books.

A copy of Linnea Sinclair, Rebels and Lovers came in for me to read. I also picked up a copy of Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag.

Daily Thoughts 3/26/2010

Desk of german author Hermann Hesse in Hermann Hesse Höri Museum in Gaienhofen Creative Commons Attributions Share Alike Attribution 3.0, Photo taken by Dierk Andresen , 2004

Daily Thoughts 3/26/2010

Today has been a quiet day. I have a number of books waiting for me to look at, The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel, How Philosophy Can Save Your Life 10 Ideas That Matter Most by Marietta McCarthy, Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley, A Better Pencil Readers Writers and the Digital Revolution by Dennis Baron, The Crucible of Empire by Eric Flint and K.D. Wenthworth, and Other Lands by David Anthony Durham.

We got our first shipment from BWI. There were a few interesting titles including R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated, and Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks edited by John Curran. On the cover it says the book contains two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot stories which is intriguing.

I went around and checked the displays, putting a few new books in a display of folklore books from storage, and making sure the new books were in order. I picked out several books for the book mobile. Mainly, they were biography titles, large print, and popular fiction which many older readers like.

I read the first chapter of How Philosophy Can Change Your Life. It is on the concept of simplicity in life. The author describes how Epictetus believed the simplest pleasures are the lasting pleasures. She draws a parallel between zen and stoicism which both focus on simplifying ones life to the point where the simple pleasures become profound. It is a philosophical counter to excessive materialism. She gives numerous examples at the end of the chapter on how to simplify ones life.

I also started reading Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley. It is the sequel to The Quiet War which is about war between two branches of humanity, the outers who are on the moons of Titan and the earth triumvirate led by the Alliance of Greater Brazil.

Daily Thoughts 3/18/2010

The library of Christ Church, Oxford from Rudolph Ackermann's History of Oxford (1813) by an unknown artist.

Daily Thoughts 3/18/2010

Today is another quiet day. I went through and marked items missing from the storage area this morning. I am also checking the labels on the paperback to make sure they are all consistent and the same. I also plan on checking the fiction mass market paperbacks and the trade paperbacks for African American fiction that needs to be relocated. I'll probably be working with one of my colleagues on this.

Sometimes when you are talking to people at the reference desk, you learn about things which stand out. This is a creative commons ebook by Lev Manovich called Software Takes Command. It looked quite interesting to me. Someone was asking for a book about digital art by Lev Manovich and it led to this book. I am convinced that there will be many more textbooks coming out as creative commons.

http://softwarestudies.com/softbook/manovich_softbook_11_20_2008.pdf

Sometimes, there are repetitive things which need to get done. I have to look at the shifting in the storage area tomorrow. I got my confirmation for my first order through BWI. I am going to work with someone who is ordering CDs tomorrow to help them place their order. Today was more predictable than usual.

Daily Thoughts 2/5/2010

Interrobang, a nonstandard punctuation mark which combines the quality of a question mark and an exclamation point.

Daily Thoughts 2/5/2010

An article from Librarything about the ongoing book wars in the publishing business. Why Are You For Killing Libraries? http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2010/02/why-are-you-for-killing-libraries.phpn

Right now, I am looking at vendors. One of my favorite bookstores, Strand Books, has library services. http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/libserv/ I also spoke with BWI and may start looking at http://www.titletales.com .

I spent a little bit more time going through the donations and picked out a few classic titles like James Joyce's The Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man. People tend to donate a lot of the classics when they are done reading them in paperback. This is not a bad thing. We generally buy a lot of them in paperback for the junior high, high school, and college assignments. Everything from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye to the Iliad.

Right now, I have started reading This Book Is Overdue How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson. I think I can comment on this, but not review this because the author is very close to where I am. The subjects are interesting which she covers. I can even recognize some of the people.

Daily Thoughts 12/14/2009

Photo of Isabel Jay as Mabel in The Pirates of Penance 1897. The image was interesting.

Daily Thoughts 12/14/2009

Today has been a day to help different people with their orders. I have been looking at nonfiction dvds, books on sermons, christian fiction, and reference books and reading various review magazines to prepare for next months orders. Mostly it has been about making sure everything is put in place. I designated some of my budget to make sure that the costs for rebinding some of the damaged books was covered.

Everything seems to be going pretty smoothly today. They are working on moving the fiction books in the mezzanine and shifting the books on the main floor to relocate the fiction books. Lots of books are being moved around right now.

We have a new sign put up for our new arrivals section.

Some of the art books which were ordered as part of our grant money have come in. I am looking at Louvre 400 Masterpieces, a Musee De Louvre Editions book published by Abrams. It is a very beautiful book with color photographs.

Tomorrow we are doing the first Graphic Novels club. It will be on Neil Gaiman, Sandman. Right now, I am looking at The Sandman Library, Seasons of Mists, Volume 4. P. Craig Russell is one of the artists. It is very interesting.

Sports Illustrated Tablet. It is an interesting mix of media and video, very different than a book. http://9to5mac.com/sports-illustrated-tablet-time-349644

Daily Thoughts 12/7/2009

Public Domain Art, Photo Montage Dickens,Collins,Gaskell and Proctor

Daily Thoughts 12/7/2009

There is a new university digital book archive called Hathitrust which has 4 million volumes. I find it interesting. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6709706.html

It is the end of the year ordering time. I have been spending some more time on the New York Times books page. I have been looking at the cooking books and the gardening books as well as some other books.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

There are some other minor things to get done. We have to finish ordering art books for a grant. We are trying to get some very nice oversize art books with the money. We also have to decide on a new label for the inspirational fiction books.

I have two philosophy books on my desk. The first is A Guide to the Good Life {the ancient art of stoic joy} by William B. Irvine. I have always felt an affinity to stoicism. The other book is The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts The Classic Chinese Guide For Success in War, Business, and Life, Hiroshi Moriya. It is translated by William Scott Wilson who also translated The Book of Five Rings and Hagakure.

On the train home, I read some more of Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence. The book was talking about how emotions are contagious, people act synchroniously with each other, and our neurons are designed to react to other peoples emotions. We don't exist in isolation.

I have been working a bit more on Linked In. I think I may have my first recommendation given to me soon. I hope it works. It is an interesting process. A lot of it is complete hype. There is a lot of nonsense around social networking tools. There is also a lot of time wasting and a tendency to make promises that are not quite right. I think one third of it is hype, one third of it is technical skills, and one third of is is genuinely useful networking. This is an article from Business Week which explains this phenomena. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_50/b4159048693735.htm

Daily Thoughts 12/4/2009

David Laing, 1862, by William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891), National Gallerys Scotland, Accession no. PG 2041, Medium: Oil on canvas, Size: 25.50 x 63.50 cm; Credit: Given to the Royal Scottish Academy by the artist 1862; presented to the National Gallery of Scotland by the RSA 1910 and transferred to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery 1964

Daily Thoughts 12/4/2009

I spent some time ordering books this morning. I read the latest New York Times Book Review and Kirkus Reviews. I also looked at reviews from various sites again. We have a large year end cash infusion to order a variety of materials. This will allow me to order some graphic novel sets instead of individual issues and pick out some of the better quality titles I missed during the year for literature as well as get some newer computer books.

I am also starting the process of creating a "Graphic Novels Club". I just got a new library card for the club and put a bunch of Neil Gaiman's Sandman on hold. I see lots of book clubs at libraries, but no graphic novel clubs. Another name that was suggested was "Manga Lounge". I think "Manga Lounge" would work better for teenagers.

I read some more of Trust Agents by Chris Brogan during lunch time over coffee at the local diner. Chris Brogan has a real knack for describing nonintrusive methods for networking. He describes how to maximize contacts instead of pushing on individuals. This evening, I finished reading it. If you read carefully, he makes some useful suggestions for social media. I used a few of his suggestions to clean up my twitter account partially.

Daily Thoughts 9/8/2009

Auguste Renoir La Liseuse

Daily Thoughts 9/8/2009

I just finished reading Shutter Island on the train to work this morning. It is a novel of psychological suspense set in a prison for the criminally insane. Is the prison really a place for secret government experiments on inmates or is the visiting United States Marshall really a mad man? It has an entertaining plot. The copy I read was a paperback.

This morning I put my orders in palce. I am also helping someone do an order for math books. There is a meeting to discuss our ordering this afternoon. I have a lot of thoughts about this right now.

Something I am thinking about is the categories of fiction that we order. We order inspirational fiction which is mainly christian but can include other religions, African American fiction, urban fiction, mystery and suspense, romance, science fiction and fantasy (horror is an orphan it can appear either in fantasy or general fiction), general fiction, and short stories. In general fiction it covers a wide variety of subjects including award winning fiction, small press fiction, world literature (we get requests for fiction from India, China, the Caribbean, Brazil, South America, and Africa), chick lit, and other material.

Generally each genre of fiction has a way of tracking bestsellers and award winning books. For example, in African American fiction, there is the Ebony bestseller list and the BCALA -- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award and the African American Literary Awards. In science fiction, there is the Locus Magazine bestseller list and the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Every fiction genre usually has a bestseller list and some awards attached to it.

Hopefully, I should get a general set of statistics from the system soon. I am hoping I can dismantle this into something which we can use. It might take me a little while to do this. I like to know which authors, call numbers, genres, and formats generate which amount of circulation. In other words, I want to know what people want. This make it more likely we will get the right material.

Daily Thoughts 9/1/2009

Allegorical Portrait of Dante, 1530

Daily Thoughts 9/1/2009

Today is another day. I am back from vacation. I weeded some of the 800s today mainly in the poetry section. I also worked on updating some of the displays with more current material. I am starting a graphic novel display and a display of oversize art books. I also plan on taking some of our books on Egypt and Africa in the storage area and putting them on display as well. I have a few bookmarks which needed to be updated done. One for graphic novels and the other for inspirational fiction.

I have to catch up on reading some catalogs as well as making sure my orders are together. I am thinking about how to do a graphic novels club as well as pick out some noire films for Sundays. There are the classics; The Thin Man, The Post Man Always Rings Twice, The Maltese Falcon as well as a few others to consider, Stage Fright, Touch of Evil, and The Third Man.

I did not read anything on the way home. Instead I made a to do list of things that need to be done. I have to do some analysis on our current circulation statistics to see which call numbers and authors are going out. I also have to take stock of what I am doing to see if there is any way which I can improve what is being done. I am thinking of the quality cycle of think, then act, then plan on what you have acted on, then do the improvements that need to be done.

Daily Thoughts 7/2/2009

Walter Crane a book illustrator.

Daily Thoughts 7/2/2009

Today was a pleasant day. I spent more time weeding the 700s, the oversize 700s, and the mystery. I also took some time to look through Library Journal online at their review section. I am pretty much caught up with my ordering for this month. There should be some interesting titles coming in.

Tomorrow is vacation time. I picked up a few books to read as well as some dvds. I am looking forward to reading Mucho Mojo by Joe Lansdale. I also plan on watching The Librarian 3: Curse of the Judas Chalice on dvd over the weekend.

I started reading How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. It is about the decision process. The book reminds me a little bit of Descartes Error by Antonio Damasio. It posits that emotions are extremely important in decision making, and that we are more of an emotional being than a rational one. I know this is true of myself.

Web Bits

Barbara Genco has joined Library Journal as its editor of collection development. I think this will be a big improvement in their coverage of selecting materials. http://www.lisnews.org/barbara_genco_joins_library_journal_editor_collection_management

Daily Thoughts 7/1/2009

Daily Thoughts July 1, 2009

Today has been another quiet day. I spent some time ordering a few fiction titles. I still have to check through a couple of different sites for African American, inspirational, mystery and suspense titles. While I was looking at Locus Magazine online, I noticed that The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon was on the bestseller list. I put it on hold. I am going to look at http://www.indiebound.org for fiction titles tomorrow.

I also spent some more time weeding the music section. I have to be very careful. It is one of those subjects like history, biography, and art where books can remain quite relevant for a very long time. I spent some time looking at a book on the discography of Sun records.

I am looking at weeding the mysteries and suspense also. Mysteries and suspense are our most popular fiction titles. Ruth Rendell, Hugh Holton, Stuart Woods, John Sanford, and James Patterson are extremely popular. My current favorite mystery author is Joe Lansdale. I also like Sparkle Hayter, Andrew Vachss, Max Allan Collins, and Sharyn McCrumb. Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb is one of my favorite mysteries; it lampoons science fiction conventions. Max Allan Collins also writes comics in addition to novels as well as television shows.

On the train home, I read some more of Building A Special Collection of Children's Literature in Your Library.

Daily Thoughts 6/29/2009

Self-portrait of Stanley Kubrick.This is a photo taken by a staff photographer of LOOK Magazine, and is part of the LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. Their former owner, Cowles Communications, Inc, dedicated to the public all rights it owned to these images as an instrument of gift.

Daily Thoughts 6/29/2009

I finished reading Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. It was odd reading this book. For some reason it read like the end of a trilogy, but it was a standalone book. There were references in the book to ancient history which made me think that there were books written before this one when there weren't.

I liked the premise that "breath" can be passed from one person to another much like karma or luck. Breath is represented by color. Those who accumulate the breath of others gain advantages like perfect pitch, agelessness, and the ability to use these breaths to animate non-living things.

There are those who have returned from the grave having received a special breath making them unique. In the kingdom of Hallendran, these people are worshipped as gods and people sacrifice their breath to them to make them stronger and more filled with destiny. Those without breath are called "drabs."

This is the fantasy story of a young princess being sent to marry the god king of Hallendran from a neighboring kingdom. She must stop a war between her kingdom and the Hallendran's. An army of lifeless troops waits to destroy her kingdom. There is intrigue, magic, and politics in a unique setting.

The book was very compelling and hard to put down. If you like fantasy, this is an excellent book. There are unexpected twists and turns. People are not always as they seem. What is bad in one persons eyes is good in anothers.

I started reading Building A Special Collection of Children's Literature In Your Library on the train home. It gives me some ideas on how special collections are created.

Today went well. I weeded some more in the 700s. I also selected some African American romance paperbacks to be added and had an order sent in for inspirational fiction. It was a fairly straightforward day.

Daily Thoughts 6/23/2009

Three quarter length portrait of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony circa 1882.

Daily Thoughts 6/23/2009

Today has been another quiet day. We spent some time ordering material. I ordered some christian fiction, some African American fiction, and various popular fiction books. I also took some time to look over the Automatically Yours account from Baker and Taylor.

We are looking at a way to merchandise the graphic novel collection. I think it will be a lot better when the graphic novels are merchandised. I have spent quite a bit of time bringing the collection up to speed. There is a lot of unique material in the collection covering history, writing, and drawing graphic novels in addition to newspaper strips and graphic novels.

On the way home, I relaxed a bit on the train. I did not read anything tonight. It gave me a few minutes to ponder where I am going. There is still a lot for me to do.