Daily Thoughts 02/10/2012
I spent some time looking at the Community Calendar on the Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce. Quite a few of the libraries events are listed there.
On the train to work, I started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. It is about the intersection of intuition versus reason. There is a lot in this book which covers how we make decisions.
I also updated the Twitter and Facebook accounts this morning for the library.
I checked the gift books this morning and the displays and contacted a few people about events. The Central Library District orders for test books have come in. It should help our Job Information Center.
Jack Kerouac has a lost novel which is coming out in March 2012 called The Sea is My Brother. It is his first novel.
We had the Computer Lab for Academic Use today from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.. Some people were practicing from Tuesday's computer class and a few people were looking for jobs.
Tonight we have The Women's Enterprise Development Center from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. doing an Enhanced First Steps for Small Business Program which is focused on entrepreneurship.
The book Fab The Coming Revolution On Your Desktop-- From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld has come in for me to read. It should be quite interesting.
I started reading Fab on the way home. It is a bit different. The focus is on personal fabrication; producing things that you have always wanted to produce, but were not available as a mass manufactured item to your specifications. I rather like that the systems being designed at the MIT Fab Labs are open source and flexible.
Web Bits
Publishing's Ecosystem on the Brink: The Back Story
http://blog.authorsguild.org/2012/01/31/publishings-ecosystem-on-the-brink-the-backstory/
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