Book Calendar: Daily Thoughts 12/16/2015

John Singer Sargent, Mosquito Nets, 1908

Daily Thoughts 12/16/2015

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I checked the displays and spent some time printing up flyers.

I also read through the latest copy of the Ingram Advance. I placed two books on hold, Nonviolent Communication A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg and Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy : A Guide from the Humanist Community at Harvard by Rick Heller.

I did a bit of orientation for three new on call librarians at the reference desk.

There is an Intermediate Excel class tonight.

I watched part of the fourteen minute film Ellis which we are screening on Saturday. It is on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLFq7WOO0g

I am going to the Mount Vernon Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting tonight.

Web Bits

How Archaeology Influenced Agatha Christie

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72537/how-archaeology-influenced-agatha-christie

Ingram Buys Direct Sales Company Aer.io

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/68956-ingram-buys-direct-sales-company-aer-io.html

Mayor to Back Library Sale Because of Ties to Condo Developer, Critics Say (Brooklyn Heights)

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151215/brooklyn-heights/de-blasio-will-back-library-deal-because-of-ties-developer-critics-say

There is a bit on a STEM lab.

The Seldom Read Books of US Presidential Candidates

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-poorly-selling-books-of-us-presidential-candidates/419496/

No Warp Drives, No Transporters: Science Fiction Authors Get Real

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/13/459392474/no-warp-drives-no-transporters-science-fiction-authors-get-real?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2040

Neil Gaiman on Returning to ‘Sandman’, Talking in His Sleep And The Power of Comics