Daily Thoughts 03/26/2018

Young Ladies Reading A Manuscript, Conrad Kiesel (1846-1921), Unknown Date

Daily Thoughts 03/26/2018

I checked the Twitter and Facbeook for the library this morning.

I also reread the Strategic Plan for Mount Vernon Public Library 2017-2020 last night.

The new Awareness to Funding 2018 document came out today.
https://www.oclc.org/research/awareness-to-funding-2018.html

I read some more of Enlightenment Now.  I am reading about how there is less violence in the world and it is a safer place to be.  Steven Pinker is addressing the tendency of news and reporters to seek out negativity.

I am reading Alternate Routes The Ghosts of the Freeway Are Rising by Tim Powers.  It is a modern fantasy novel with ghosts, intrigue, and government agents.

Become a Mount Vernon Public Library Trustee.
http://mountvernonpubliclibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/become-a-trustee-2018.pdf


Web Bits

The New York Times is launching an audiobook bestseller list.

http://investors.nytco.com/press/press-releases/press-release-details/2018/The-New-York-Times-to-Launch-Monthly-Audiobook-Best-Seller-Lists/default.aspx

School librarians fear a 'quiet crisis' is endangering their place in education.

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/school-librarians-fear-a-quiet-crisis-is-endangering-their-place-in-the-education-world

In Brooklyn, Modernizing A Library for Downloads and Robots

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/25/nyregion/brooklyn-library-major-owens.html

Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch Will Get a $135M Upgrade
https://ny.curbed.com/2018/3/26/17163774/brooklyn-public-library-central-branch-renovation