Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Daily Thoughts 05/23/2012

Woman With A Child In A Boat, Berthe Morisot, 1892, Oil on Canvas

Daily Thoughts 05/23/2012

I read some more of Ulysses on the Kindle Touch.  I am at the point where Ulysses contends with Circe the sorceress who turns men into swine.  There is a certain truth to this when you read this story.  It comes across as allegorical.  I also read a little more of Javascript: The Missing Manual.

This morning, I checked the displays and updated the Twitter and Facebook accounts.  The library has the computer lab open between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.  I spent some time talking about how to download library e-books with the Nook.  It is a little bit different than the Kindle.

I read the latest Publishers Weekly magazine.  There was an article called Disintermediating Amazon which I enjoyed.  You often can pull up the articles from the magazine online.  http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/52000-disintermediating-amazon.html

I also read the latest Booklist and finished reading the Baker and Taylor Forecast.  I like to check the catalog to see who is also ordering copies of different books and how many holds there are.  The Westchester Library System functions cooperatively.  Each library has a separate budget and administration.

I also spent some time and updated my thought experiment, Inflatable Space, some new ideas have come along.  For example, Space X has successfully launched a rocket for NASA.  They also have teamed up with Bigelow Aerospace to promote the Genesis Inflatable Space Station.  In addition, a new company called Stratolaunch has formed to launch rockets from high altitude airplanes.  Pieces of the original thought experiment are startting to happen.   http://bookcalendar.blogspot.com/2010/11/inflatable-space-thought-experiment.html    This of course is more about creativity than books, but I do it sometimes to stretch my thinking.

Web Bits

More Than Just Text
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/05/book-digitisation?fsrc=gn_ep

A Model for the New Bookstore
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/05/23/model-new-bookstore-essay

American Libraries Econtent Supplement May/June
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f8ac9caa#/f8ac9caa/1

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