Daily Thoughts 7/14/2011

[Group of young women reading in library of normal school, Washington, D.C.]
Date Created/Published: [1899]


Daily Thoughts 7/14/2011


I read a bit more of On Leadership on the train to work.


This morning, I checked the Twitter account, got a donation of books, checked the displays, and checked the Ereference.  There were a number of interesting donations; Catullus the Complete Poems, The Life of Pi by Yan Martel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson were a few of the books worth adding to the collection.


I received an invitation to Google+ in my email this morning.  Hopefully, it should be interesting.

We added a set of eight more pictures to our Historic Library Images, Adult Circulation Through Time...
http://www.mountvernonpubliclibrary.org/node/282

We have two programs.  One is a Wills Workshop where wills are being discussed.  We are also opening the computer lab on Thursdays from 2-4 p.m. to help with the overflow from the cybercorner.  People seem to mainly be doing job search online.

The books, Curation Nation Why The Future of Content Is Context How To Win In a World Where Consumers Are Curators by Steven Rosenbaum came in for me to read.  This is a book on content.   Also the science fiction book, Out of the Dark by David Weber came in for me to read.  It is a book about alien invasion of earth.

Web Bits


What skills does a Digital Archivist or Librarian Need?
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/what-skills-does-a-digital-archivist-or-librarian-need/

The 5 Most Stolen Books by Gabe Habash
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/?p=5788

Daily Thoughts 3/16/2011 (Advocacy, Holds)

"In order to have more, it is necessary to produce more. In order to produce more, it is necessary to know more.", 1921

Daily Thoughts 3/16/2011

I tabulated some more of the surveys today.  People are asking for more educational programming, more new books, and a quieter place to read among other things.  I am hoping this will give us a better idea of what our patrons.  Also people are interested in ereading devices and want some instruction on ebooks.

I also spent some time checking the displays this morning.
Two books came in for me to read, Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future How Science Will Shape Human Destiny And Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100.  This is a popular science table.    Also, The Book of Bunk A Fairytale of the Federal Writers' Project by Glen Hirshberg came in for me to read.

I went to the board meeting of the library and stayed until eleven at night.  A lot of it was union negotiations and discussion of grants and advocacy for the library.