Daily Thoughts 01/25/2012
On the train to work, I read some more of Debt The First 5,000 Years. I am reading about how debt obligations sometimes lead to enslavement. There is a bit on the African slave trade and how many of the people on the Atlantic slave trade were enslaved as debtors then sold to be brought to America.
This morning, I updated the Twitter and Facebook accounts for the library. I also spent some time working on flyers and the eblasts. I have an issue of Publishers Weekly and the latest issue of the New York Times Book Review to read. I also picked out some graphic novels for the Graphic Novels Club this afternoon.
We are doing the Computer Lab for Academic Use today from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon. It has started to fill up very quickly. A number of the people from the Tuesday computer classes come in to practice in the lab.
We discussed Kyle Baker at the Graphic Novels club who wrote Plastic Man on the Lam and How to draw stupid and other rules of cartooning. Kyle Baker reminds me a little bit of Aaron MacGruder who wrote the comic strip Boondocks.
Two books came in for me to read, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey D. Sachs.
On the way home, I read the latest New York Times Book Review and the January 23, 2012 Publishers Weekly. There were a lot of interesting books being announced. I saw an advertisement for Paolo Bacigalupi's new book coming in May, The Drowned Cities. Another book which caught my attention was Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How Americans Eat by Katherine Gustafson coming out in April published by St. Martin's. There is already a website for the book with a blog. http://www.changecomestodinner.com/Book/Home.html
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