Daily Thoughts 02/17/2017

Gabriel Metsu, Man Writing a Letter 1664-1666

Daily Thoughts 02/17/2017

I checked the libraries Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I read some of Moonglow by Michael Chabon on the way home last night.  Moonglow is a memoir turned fictional.  It is stories of Michael Chabon's family.  However, Michael Chabon does not try and present it as truth.  It is a story.  He starts with his grandparents.  The title Moonglow refers to his grandfather's love of space.

I talked to Scholastic today about databases.

I have been doing a tally of the computer resources at the Mount Vernon Public Library for the Management of Technology class.

On the subway today, I also read a little bit of In The Great Green Room The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret Wise Brown wrote The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon.

I spent some time looking at the Visualizing Funding for Libraries Data Tool  http://libraries.foundationcenter.org/

Web Bits

Library Hand, The Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/library-hand-penmanship-handwriting

The Most Expensive Library In the World? Book Capella Opens for Russian Elite

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/feb/15/the-most-expensive-library-in-the-world-book-capella-opens-for-russian-elite

Authors and Illustrators of Color Accounted for 22% of Childrens Books
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/17/515792141/authors-and-illustrators-of-color-accounted-for-22-percent-of-children-s-books?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=artslife