Daily Thoughts 02/28/2017

Girl Reading, Georges Valmier, 1924

Daily Thoughts 02/28/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I checked the displays and the gift books this morning.

I spent some time looking over programs.  I also met with a colleague to discuss programs for March and April.  I am working on an Poetry Program on April 26 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  I have some work to do for the computer classes.

I spent some time in the lab.  I have a person who I have assigned to do some of my programs. She covered the crochet group today which is a solid group of patrons.  We also discussed ordering nonfiction books.

I worked on an order of new books for fiction and nonfiction.  I read the latest copy of the New York Times Book Review.

I checked out two books, Beyond Competitive Advantage How To Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth While Creating Value by Todd Zenger published by Harvard Business Review Press and At the Existentialist Cafe Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell.

Web Bits

Last Day to Vote in One Book, One New York Program

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/72900-last-day-to-vote-in-one-book-one-new-york-program.html

The Monk Who Saves Manuscripts from ISIS

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/02/the-monk-who-saves-manuscripts-from-isis/517611/

Yonkers Library Circulation Jumps 21% in 2016

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2017/02/28/circulation-jump/98475202/

Daily Thoughts 02/27/2017

Daily Thoughts 02/27/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I worked on my Management of Technology class today.  I watched several videos.  I also checked on the Budget and Finance class.  I registered for the course Planning & Library Buildings for the CPLA.

Web Bits

Amazon Books Another Turn In the Spiral
http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2017/02/amazon-books-another-turn-in-the-spiral/

Daily Thoughts 02/26/2017

Knitting in the Library

Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise), 1881

Daily Thoughts 02/26/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.


I turned in my assignment for my Management of Technology class.

I read the latest Publishers Weekly Bestseller List and the New York Times Bestseller List.

Web Bits

Library of Congress Reaching Out to Younger Readers

http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/feb/26/library-of-congress-reaching-out-to-younger-readers/

Daily Thoughts 02/25/2017

Portrait of Edgar Degas, Marcellin Desboutin, January 1, 1900


Daily Thoughts 02/25/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I also checked on my classes for the CPLA.

I requested the book, Adult Programs In the Library by Brett W. Lear through interlibrary loan.

Web Bits

Then and Now Photos of 107 Year Old Library

http://www.indystar.com/picture-gallery/news/2017/02/23/then-and-now-photos-of-107-year-old-library/98257228/

Prisons & Publics Outreach

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/02/library-services/prisons-publics-outreach/

A Library in Letters: The Bodleian

https://blog.oup.com/2017/02/bodleian-library-letters/

Daily Thoughts 02/24/2017

Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry, Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (1822–1858) 1851

Daily Thoughts 02/24/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I also finished reading In the Great Green Room The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary.  It was a biography that showed a complicated life.  Margaret Wise Brown was a woman who loved animals, dogs, nature and hunting.  She wrote children's books but wanted to write for an adult audience.  I am quite fond of her books, The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon.  I thought this was an excellent telling of life story with plenty of drama and conflict.  The story is as much a story about love and family as it is about writing.

I spent some time reading technology plans from Santa Cruz Public Library and Anchorage Public Library.  I was a page at Santa Cruz Public Library a long time ago.

I wrote a sample proposal for my Budget and Finance class for the CPLA.  I also spent some time working on my Management of Technology class.

Tech Soup has an RFP library on how to write proposals.
http://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/rfp-library

Web Bits

Libraries in the 21st Century Why Law Libraries Are More Important Than Ever

http://lithub.com/librarians-in-the-21st-century-why-law-libraries-are-more-important-than-ever/

Information Is Garbage

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/03/information-is-garbage/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Libraries are a Safe Haven for Homeless People-- But Locals Seek to Exclude Them

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/libraries-homelessness-deter-landscape-designs-san-francisco

Top 5 Myths About National Library Legislative Day

http://www.districtdispatch.org/2017/02/top-5-myths-national-library-legislative-day/