Daily Thoughts 11/30/2011

Kyōka hassen sono ni. Print shows three men and a woman (poets); one man is standing behind a low screen, reading; another is sitting on the floor in front of the screen, feeding a turtle from a bowl; the third man and the woman are standing on the left.   Date Created/Published: [between 1818 and 1824] 


Daily Thoughts 11/30/2011

I updated the Twitter and Facebook accounts for the library this morning.

The library has the Graphic Novels Club today .  I am bringing in a few things to show including The First Kingdom, an issue of Star Reach, Parsifal illustrated by P. Craig Russell, and a few other ground level comics.  There is also some material from New York Comic Con which I plan on showing.  The club runs from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. today.

We had the Computer Lab for Academic Use today between 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.  I also spent some time learning how to modify the website calendar.

I read some more of Survival of the Beautiful.  There is a lot on the aesthetics of birds focusing on plumage, nest building, and song.  The author focuses a lot on the bowerbird, nightingale, bird of paradise, and peacock.

This afternoon, I spent a little more time getting the graphic novel club material ready.  I also worked a bit with a colleague on a press release announcing the amnesty for lost items from the Mount Vernon Public Library which runs from November 22, 2011 to January 31, 2012.  Hopefully, we should get quite a bit of our material back.  It is now up in the Mount Vernon Inquirer.

In addition, I printed a variety of flyers for different events coming up in December.

I put the book, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman on hold.  It is on the 10 Best Books of 2011 from the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/10-best-books-of-2011.html?_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=AR-E-FB-SM-LIN-TBB-113011-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click

I also put the graphin novel Zahra's Paradise by Amir (text) and Khalil (illus.) on hold.  It is a story set in the disputed 2009 election in Iran.

Web Bits


Occupy Wall Street Library


Pathetic: Grown Men Cry Over Occupy Wall Street Library Demolition
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/11/29/pathetic-grown-men-cry-over-occupy-library-demolition/
A little note on how some of the world sees this.

Lessons from the Occupy Wall Street Library
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/lessons-occupy-wall-street-library

Once I Understood, the "Occupy" Movement, I Saw How it Fits the Common Core
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/nonfictionmatters/2011/11/30/once-i-understood-the-occupy-movement-i-saw-how-it-fits-the-common-core/