Daily Thoughts 09/19/2015

"Second Hand Booksellers, Spring", by T. F. Šimon . Color soft ground etching and aquatint, Published 1912 by Georges Petit, Paris in an edition of 200. Actual size: 9-3/8 x 9-3/4 inches.

Daily Thoughts 09/19/2015

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook today.

I also read some more of The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.  He has a lot of opinons about the different places he visits in the holy land.  A lot of it is about how terribly hot it is, how barren the landscape is, how hard it is to ride all day long, and that camels are mean animals.

I also spent some time working on a brochure for Latino and Latin American films at the Mount Vernon Public Library.  I also posted a few listings for an event.

I checked the latest bestsellers from Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review.

Web Bits

Library's Tor Relay Which Had Been Pulled After Feds Noticed Now Restored

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/small-town-library-restores-tor-relay-which-had-gone-dark-for-weeks/

Archival Mindfulness Coloring Book

http://files.archivists.org/pubs/SAAColoringBook2015.pdf

Be Kind to Books Club Poster Series

http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/educational/BKBCposters/index.html

The New York Public Library Will Post 453,000 Historic Maps Online

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68332/new-york-public-library-will-post-435000-historic-maps-online?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral

Big Tech Has Become Way too Powerful

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/is-big-tech-too-powerful-ask-google.html?_r=0