Daily Thoughts 10/12/2017

Nikolaos Gyzis, Historia, 1891

Daily Thoughts 10/12/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

We changed the layout of our calendar a bit. http://mountvernonpubliclibrary.org/calendar/

I read some more of Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov.  Garry Kasparov is describing his connection with computers and how the personal computer has made it easier for people to develop excellent chess skills.  He describes how it is very easy to get master level chess teaching programs anywhere in the world.

I checked the displays and the gift books this morning.

I also printed some more flyers for the Papercrafts program this afternoon from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The papercrafts program went well today.  We had a lot of people who showed up.  We made skeleton masks for Day of the Dead.

I read copies of the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.

Web Bits

Girl Power: How Can Books Empower Young Girls?

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38770936

Self Publishing ISBNS Climbed 8% Between 2015-2016

http://www.bowker.com/news/2017/Self-Publishing-ISBNs-Climbed-8-Between-2015-2016.html

Library Trolls Copyright Zealots by Naming Collection After Sonny Bono

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/internet-archive-puts-full-out-of-print-books-from-20s-and-30s-online/

Library of Congress Book Conveyor Tunnel

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/library-of-congress-book-conveyor-tunnel