Daily Thoughts 09/26/2016

WPA Arts Poster, Works Project Administration, 1935

Daily Thoughts 09/26/2016

 I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I read some more of Power last night.  The author describes some of the drawbacks to being in public positions of authority including loss of autonomy, public visibility, excessive time requirements, dilemmas of trust, and addiction to control and power.

New York Library Association has a new value calculator.

https://www.nyla.org/max/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=1181&MenuKey=advocacy

Web Bits

Growing Mobile The Digital Shift

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/09/industry-news/growing-mobile-the-digital-shift/

"I'm In Book Heaven." How One Reading Specialist Seeks to Change Lives Through a New Library at an L.A. County Juvenile Hall

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-juvenile-hall-library-20160926-snap-story.html

 Automation

Our Job Is To Consider A World Without Work

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/25/our-job-now-is-to-consider-a-future-without-work?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_a-technology_b-gdntech#link_time=1474830703