Daily Thoughts 02/26/2016

Vanitas: A skull, a violin, an upturned tazza, books, tarot cards, a fob watch, a clay pipe, a taper, and a pouch of tobacco on a pewter plate, on a wooden table draped with a rug, Attributed to Sebastien Bonnecroy


Daily Thoughts 02/26/2016

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook today.







I read some more of Postcapitalism.  Paul Mason cites Jeremy Rifkin's book, The Zero Margin Cost Society: The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and The Eclipse of Capitalism.





I checked the gift books and the displays.  I also printed a few flyers.  We are going to look at a new system for scheduling programs today.






We had a session on Plymouth Rocket Event Keeper which is a system to manage programming and events.  It includes some features like the ability to create online signup sheets. http://www.eventkeeper.com






I spent a little time generating a report in Reports Station.






I am scheduling a tablet for weeding.  There is a tablet for Mobile Circulation for Sirsi Dynix at the Westchester Library System.








I also looked through a copy of Baker and Taylor Forecast, the New York Times Book Review, and the Baker and Taylor Navigator.


I checked out the book, Native Son by Richard Wright.  There is going to be a panel discussion of the book at the Mount Vernon Public Library on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. featuring Brian G. Johnson, Esquire, Shawna Marie Aarons-Cooke, LCSW, and Trustee Darren M. Morton, Ed.D..







Web Bits

Facebooks AI is Learning by Reading Loads of Childrens Books

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078821-facebooks-ai-is-learning-by-reading-loads-of-childrens-books/?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=cd8daedf6f-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-cd8daedf6f-

Digital Skills are not the Same as Digital Literacy

http://techsoupforlibraries.org/blog/digital-skills-are-not-the-same-as-digital-literacy