Daily Thoughts 02/28/2016

Richard Wright by Gordon Parks, 1943, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photography Collection, Public Domain.

Daily Thoughts 02/28/2016

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I am almost done reading Native Son by Richard Wright.  The discussion should be interesting tomorrow at 6:00 p.m..  There is a short half hour movie on the book.  The story is quite dark at points and hard to read, but revelatory in its content.  It says a lot about race relations between black people and white people which is still true in many ways.

I read some more of Postcapitalism.  I am reading a very left oriented overview of labor history.  There are some interesting comments on Taylorism, Henry Ford, and how traditional unions are often used as a counterforce against fascism.  The final part is a bit on how networked individuals who use social media, cell phones, and computing are changing the organization of the workforce.

Web Bits

Library Services Designed to Help Aduts Complete Education

http://www.thecouriertimes.com/news/article_f95f31e7-1643-589e-9238-68e5793e6dd0.html

There's A Village in Wales that is Basically One Big Library
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseypippin/hay-on-wye?utm_term=.gq3R5ZN0rJ#.dcNbJV7wxv