Daily Thoughts 02/15/2012

Still Life with Spring Flowers, 1892, Anna Munthe-Norstedt
Daily Thoughts 02/15/2012


I checked the displays and the gift books this morning.  I also spent some time talking to people about programming today.


Right now, the Computer Lab for Academic Use is running between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.

A colleague is displaying Le Costume Historique by August Racinet, Paris: Firmin-Didot 1888 in a display cabinet next to the reference desk.  The illustrations in the multi volume set are beautiful.  There is a Collage Exhibit, Piecing It Togehter, in the Rotunda Gallery. http://www.mountvernonpubliclibrary.org/node/146

I am looking at the Library Journal Article , The Shape of Things to Come in the February 15, 2012 magazine on P.32.  It reveals something that was told to me at Book Camp. There are over 100 different tablets, and 50 different models of superslim laptops. This means there is a tremendous proliferation of potential e-reading devices.  The article says that E-readers may soon be completely replaced by multifunction tablets.

It shows that the information and content may ultimately be more important than the variety of devices.  In my opinion the software which go with the devices which can be used on a laptop or pc may last longer than the personal digital assistants as constant upgrades are introduced.

I placed a hold on the book Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell.

Web Bits


Reading a Book Really Is Better the Second Time Around
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2101516/Reading-book-really-better-second-time-round--reading-offer-mental-health-benefits.html


 It's Time to Start Blaming Publishers for the Troubles of the Publishing Industry
http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/it%E2%80%99s-time-to-start-blaming-publishers-for-the-troubles-of-the-publishing-industry-by-nico-vreeland/

Daily Thoughts 02/09/2012

Portrait in oil of the dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza by the painter Franz Wulfhagen (1624–1670) from Bremen, Germany. Created in 1664, probably commissioned by the scholar Johann Eberhard Schweling, the painting today is in private hands in France.

Daily Thoughts 02/09/2012

We have the Computer Lab for Academic Use from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 pm. I have been helping a few people with their email today.

There is a collage exhibit being put up today called Piecing It Together, at the Mount Vernon Public Library.  I can hear them putting up the exhibit right.  https://www.artswestchester.org/things-to-do/event/piecing-it-together-at-mount-vernon-library/

I put some books on collage, assemblage, and mosaic in the displays cases next to the art exhibit.  We have quite a few oversize or quart art books.

On the way home, I read some more of Thinking, Fast and Slow.  Daniel Kahneman is writing about risk.  He is describing why we fail to make bets based on probability and are likely to make huge disastrous bets when we are in trouble.