Daily Thoughts 08/07/2015

Seated Woman, Olga (Pablo Picasso), 1920

Daily Thoughts 08/07/2015

I finished reading In Montmartre Picasso, Matisse, and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe.  This is an entertaining popular study of the early days of modern art.  I enjoyed reading about Picasso's quirks and Matisse's skill.  It shows the struggle to create art in an easily accessible manner.  This is for the book club on August 27, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

I also read some more of Future Crimes.  I am reading about how people can hack biometric and fingerprint readers.  There is a reminder that people have only one set of eyes and one set of fingerprints and once copies are made of these, it becomes easy to impersonate another individual.

I checked the gift books and the displays.  I also checked the social media.  We had a meeting this morning where we discussed the collection development policy.

I read a copy of Bookpage.

I checked out the book, Digital Gold Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper.

Web Bits

Saying Goodbye to a Secret Bookstore

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/saying-goodbye-to-a-secret-bookstore

Daily Thoughts 08/06/2015

Violin and Newspaper (Musical Forms), 1912, Georges Braque.  Georges Braque is one of the artists written about in the book, In Montmartre.

Daily Thoughts 08/06/2015

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.


On the way to work, I read some more of In Montmartre.  I am reading about how Picasso has become a recognized artist and a bit on cubism.


Today at 3:00 p.m., there is a webcast on Collection Development Tips and Tools which I am attended.


I spent some time entering an event into the News 12 Westchester calendar and the Mount Vernon Daily Voice calendar.

I also checked the gift books and the new books.

There is a Microsoft Powerpoint class in the computer lab tonight from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

I spent some time working on a rough draft for a collection development policy.  I also spent some time working on an order for new books.

Web Bits

Connecting Libraries and Social Justice

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/connecting-libraries-and-social-justice/

Daily Thoughts 08/04/2015

Daily Thoughts 08/04/2015

On the way to work, I read some more of In Montmartre.  This is a popular work of art and biography.  It delves into a variety of artists lives who lived in France.  The book is colorful, bohemian, and a bit eccentric.  The people drink alcohol and absinthe, smoke tobacco, travel to different places around the world.  It is about the struggle to be a great artist and live differently than other people.

I checked the Twitter and Facebook for the library this morning.  I also checked the displays.  I posted some flyers to Facebook and made sure there were some flyers in the racks for programs.

This day was too busy to write about.  I had a tremendous amount to do.

There was a union meeting which I attended.  It was mainly about the union contract.

Daily Thoughts 08/05/2015

The Reader, Marguerite Matisse, 1906, Henri Matisse

Daily Thoughts 08/05/2015

On the way to work, I read some more of In Montmartre.  I am reading about how Picasso began going to the cinema in addition to the circus.  According to Sue Roe, he had a love for spectacle.

I checked the Twitter and Facebook for the library this morning.  I also sent some flyers to our email list.

I also checked the displays and the gift books.

I spent some time finishing reading the latest Ingram Advance.  There is a graphic novel called Amazing Fantastic Incredible which is about Stan Lee.  It is done by Stan Lee, Peter David, and Colleen Duran.  Colleen Duran is famous for her Elfquest and A Distant Soil comics.  Another memoir which looks interesting is The Lost Landscape A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates.  In business there is a book called Phishing for Fools The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller which looks telling.

I also spent some time working on the monthly report for August as well as the month end statistics.  My colleague is off at Digipalooza.

I have to work on the collection development policy for the library.  There is a meeting on August 7, this Friday.


Web Bits

Libraries Reclaiming Their Lustre

https://sourceable.net/libraries-reclaiming-their/

Pitt Law Librarians Uncover Smoking Gun Evidence in Historic "Happy Birthday" Song Lawsuit
http://law.pitt.edu/news/news-item/pitt-law-librarians-help-uncover-smoking-gun-evidence-historic-happy-birthday-song

Top 10 Literary Hoaxes
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/05/top-10-literary-hoaxes-mark-blacklock

 

Daily Thoughts 08/03/2015

Roman fresco of the Greek dramatist Menander from the Casa del Menandro (I 10, 4) in Pompeii


Daily Thoughts 08/03/2015

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




On the way to work, I read some more of In Montmartre.  I am reading about Picasso's love for the circus.  He used to go to the circus and drink with the clowns.  Many of paintings display clowns.  He would sometimes go to the circus for two to three nights a week.




I also read some more of Future Crimes by Marc Goodman.  I am reading about how people can hack into home video monitors and baby monitors and see people inside their homes.  This book is definitely meant to scare people.




I checked the displays and the gift books.  I also spent some time putting together flyers.  I read through several copies of Publishers Weekly, the New York Times and Booklist.  Two books caught my attention, Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse which is a mystery featuring Sherlock Holmes brother, and Wealth Secrets of the One Percent A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich by Sam Wilkin which got a fascinatingly bad review in the New York Times Book Review.




I spent some time working on preparing for programming in the afternoon.  I also checked some statistics.  I am planning on watching some videos in preparation for the Latino Americans grant.


Web Bits

Librarians Need Bricks, Not Just Clicks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/11779734/Libraries-need-bricks-not-just-clicks.html

A Library of Good Ideas
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/08/a-library-of-good-ideas/400259/?utm_source=SFFB