Daily Thoughts 10/09/2019

Reading Woman on a Couch, Isaac Israel, by 1934

Daily Thoughts 10/09/2019

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this afternoon.

This morning, I was at the Kings Highway Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.  They are the first branch in Brooklyn with a Best Buy Teen Computer Center.  We spent time looking at the different computers.  They had a dozen hewlett packards and four MacIntosh computers.  \

There was also a sound studio with a midi keyboard and drums.  There was a drawing tablet and cameras and a variety of other electronics like a makerbot.  It was a combination of makerspace and computer lab.  I liked seeing the setting.

We are planning on applying for the Best Buy Grant.  We are also planning for a teen lab and maker space of our own at the Mount Vernon Public Library.

I checked the gift books and the displays when I got back.

People continued to shift books while I was out.

I read a copy of the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books.

Web Bits

The Real C-Word Is Community
https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/the-real-c-word-is-community

New York Library Exhibit to Pay Tribute to JD Salinger
https://news.yahoo.com/york-library-exhibit-pay-tribute-040650644.html;_ylt=AwrC1TH5Vp5d4mMAazrQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByNXM5bzY5BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--

The Battle for the Future of E-books Is Happening at Your Local Library
https://www.fastcompany.com/90404633/battle-for-the-future-e-books-at-the-local-library?utm_campaign=eem524%3A524%3As00%3A20191009_fc&utm_medium=Compass&utm_source=newsletter