Book Calendar: Daily Thoughts 07/15/2018

Portrait of Baudelaire, Emile Deroy, 1844

Daily Thoughts 07/15/2018

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook today.

I read some more of The New Human Rights Movement. I am reading about consumerism and "structural violence" or violence created by poverty and other social ills.

Web Bits

Behind the Counter at America's Smallest Indie Bookstores

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/77507-behind-the-counter-at-america-s-smallest-indie-bookstores.html

Council Adopts Three Revisions to Library Bill of Rights Interpretation

http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2018/07/council-adopts-three-revisions-library-bill-rights-interpretations

The Library of Alexandria is Long Gone and All Around Us

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-library-of-alexandria-is-long-gone-and-all-around-us

Artificial Intelligence

How the Enlightenment Ends Henry Kissinger

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-human-history/559124/

Post Work: The Radical Idea of a World Without Jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs

There are 170,000 Fewer Retail Jobs in 2017 and 75,000 More Amazon Robots