Daily Thoughts 10/19/2015

The Library of Palais Lanckaronski, Vienna Rudolf von Alt, 1881

Daily Thoughts 10/19/2015

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.

I also placed an order for new books.

I read some more of Part of Our Lives.  I am reading about the Works Project Administration and libraries.  The Mount Vernon Public Library had a mural painted by Louise Brann who was part of the Federal Arts Project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brann


Urban Libraries Unite has a fall fundraiser.  http://urbanlibrariansunite.org/2015/10/19/ulu-fall-fundraiser/

I spent some time working on a bookmark and a brochure for award winning fiction books.

I am planning the schedule for November and December with a colleague.

I spent some time in the computer lab helping people this afternoon.  There are two beginning computer classes tonight, A Fundamentals of Computers class, and Beginning Microsoft Word class.
I read the latest New York Review of Books.  This article, Moving Pictures http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/books/review/moving-pictures.html?ref=books was in the latest New York Times Book Review.  I thought it was forward thinking.

I read some more of Part of Our Lives on the way home.  I reading about censorship in libraries focused on books.  They talk about many books which we consider classics like Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, and James Joyce, Ulysses.  There is also some material on libraries would not include early series books by authors like Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger.



Web Bits

Frederick Forsyth, Thrilling in Real Life
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/17/449158992/frederick-forsyth-thrilling-in-real-life?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=books&utm_term=artsculture&utm_content=2044

Chicago's Newest Library is on a Train

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chicago-trains-transformed-into-libraries-180956904/?utm_source=facebook.com&no-ist

My Hero Toni Morrison by Marlon James

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/17/my-hero-toni-morrison-marlon-james


NY Libraries Shouldn't be Selling Land, Especially to Bild 'Affordable Housing'
http://nypost.com/2015/10/18/ny-libraries-shouldnt-be-selling-land-especially-to-build-affordable-housing/


Preparing to Define 'Democratic Socialism', Bernie Sanders Points to Libraries and Police
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/19/preparing-to-define-democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders-points-to-libraries-and-the-police/