Showing posts with label the lost fleet relentless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the lost fleet relentless. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Daily Thoughts 3/9/2010

2002 Tunisian stamp picturing a mosaic of Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil). This mosaic is over 1700 years old. It is in a Roman villa in Tunisia.



Daily Thoughts 3/9/2010



Today, I checked the displays to make sure they were in order. I also made sure we had a sign up sheet for the poetry program. The shifting of the fiction collection is moving along nicely. Our computers are being worked on toady.


I made a few adjustments to my orders for tomorrow and read the latest issue of Booklist.


Last night, I finished reading Jack Campbell, The Lost Fleet Relentless. It was engrossing towards the end. It starts out slow then builds quickly. Right now, I am reading The Time Paradox The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd. It is a book about different ways to view time and orientations towards time.

I have another book which looks quite interesting sitting in front of me, Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene. This book is about the neuroscience and invention of reading. I am hoping it gives some interesting insights.

On the train home I read some of The Time Paradox. I learned a few things, I am future oriented with a focus on transcendence after death. I don't view past experience in a positive light and I am not fatalistic or deterministic in my outlook. I believe in choice and free will. This is pretty much true. The name of the inventory was called the ZTPI ( Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory). I find psychological inventories entertaining and sometimes useful.



Monday, March 8, 2010

Daily Thoughts 3/8/2010

Paul Alexis Reading a Manuscript to Zola, 1869, Paul Cezanne, Oil On Canvas, Sao Paolo Museum of Art


Daily Thoughts 3/8/2010


Today has been a quiet day. I did some weeding in the mezzanine. We had a service meeting to discuss how our collection is going. I also made sure that the displays were updated and read the latest copy of the New York Times Book Review.


The Web 2.0 Libraries conference I planned to attend was cancelled for March 16, 2010. It was a bit disappointing. I am going to see if I can go to a workshop at the New York Librarians Meetup instead.


I am reading more of The Lost Fleet, Relentless by Jack Campbell. Captain Geary has come back from a hundred years of cold sleep to find the battle between the republic and the syndics rages on interminably. The syndics are corporate syndicate controlled worlds. I am enjoying it so far. There are losses, intrigue, and ruthless warfare.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Daily Thoughts 3/6/2010


Mark Twain's De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer, Nederlandse Vertaling 1920


Daily Thoughts 3/6/2010


I went to my local library today and picked up a copy of Jack Campbell, The Lost Fleet: Relentless. It is military space opera. Hopefully, it will be entertaining. It is nice to take a break from intellectual pursuits sometimes.

I also picked up a copy of Measuring Your Library's Value How To Do A Cost Benefit Analysis for Your Public Library by Donald S. Elliott, Glen E. Holt, Sterling W. Hayden, and Leslie Edmond's Holt. Something I've noticed is that in our library system, most of the branches keep books on librarianship in reference or as part of a special collection in the library. In both Queens Library and Manhattan they allow books on librarianship to circulate.