Thursday, January 11, 2018

Daily Thoughts 01/11/2018


Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A Woman Reading a Book

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York)


Daily Thoughts 01/11/2018

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

Last night, I read some more of Making Contact.  There is a strong relationship between searching for exoplanets and trying to find intelligent life.  One of the ideas attached to exoplanets is that we should like for a habitable zone where life could live.  NASA has an archive of exoplanets  https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/   In the future it may be possible to look at planets in other solar systems with something called a gravitational lens using the sun.  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601331/a-space-mission-to-the-gravitational-focus-of-the-sun/    The gravitational lens is not in the book, it is just an interesting idea.

I checked the displays and the gift books today.

I also checked some items that needed to be put back in the catalog as well as a few items that needed to be mended.

We spent some time working on programs for February and March of 2018.

I also discussed the calendar and how much we were spending on programming with a colleague.

There is a computer class tonight from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for What Is Coding?

I checked out the graphic novel, Grandville Force Majeure A Detective Inspector Lebrock of Scotland Yard Scientific Romance Thriller by Bryan Talbot.  I also checked out the book, No Time to Spare Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Web Bits



NBF, NYC Raising Readers Initiative

Why Should You Report Censorship? OIF Answers a Few Questions

Kansas City Public Library Teams With Police to Hnd Out Free Gun Locks

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