Daily Thoughts 12/18/2017

Cover to the first edition (in London by Heinemann in 1896) cover of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells.

Daily Thoughts 12/18/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

Last night I read some more of Bunk.  There is a discussion of how many of the lost race stories and myths about Africa have been turned into science fiction.  Edgar Rice Burroughs stories about John Carter of Mars, H. Rider Haggard's  King Solomons Mines, and H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau all of have at their heart false mythologies about race.

I reached out to some more people through LinkedIn for our Lets Build Robots! campaign.
https://www.givegab.com/campaigns/let-s-build-robots

Give Gab started out as a social network for volunteers.
https://www.givegab.com/blog/pr-venture-capital/


Web Bits

The Case Against Library Fines-- According to the Head of the New York Public Library

https://qz.com/1158839/the-case-against-library-fines-according-to-the-head-of-the-new-york-public-library/

Stay With Me is New Book Club Central  Pick

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/stay-new-book-club-central-pick/

Stay With Me is our next book club pick.

A Block Chain Encyclopedia Everipedia

https://everipedia.org/

Yonkers Library Clears Reference Shelves Because of Online Searching
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yonkers/2017/12/13/yonkers-library-clears-reference-shelves-because-online-searching/945266001/