Daily Thoughts 04/17/2012

Abraham Van Strij, Merchant


Daily Thoughts 04/17/2012

I checked the Twitter and Facebook accounts for the library this morning.  I also updated the current events display with a few books on oil and healthcare.   I checked the gift books also and added a few books for young adult as well as some audio cds.

I finished reading the latest Forecast from Baker and Taylor.  I am starting on reading Publishers Weekly.

I took a break and did a few exercises on http://codecademy.com/ .  They now have exercises for CSS and HTML as well as JAVA.  I also watched a little bit of a video on Lynda.com during lunch for Wordpress 3.

I have been reading a lot of reviews from Booklist and other sources.  We have our computer training classes tonight.

On the way home, I read some more of An Economist Gets Lunch.  I like his argument that more immigrants from a wide variety of backgrounds improves restaurant quality.  Immigrants often start new restaurants.  I also like his descriptions of shopping in a Chinese grocery store.


Web Bits

The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr12/Coffman--The-Decline-and-Fall-of-the-Library-Empire.shtml 
Written from LSSI, library outsourcer and barbarian at the gates of the empire.

Daily Thoughts 04/10/2012

Interior with poppies and reading woman (Lizzy Hohlenberg), 1905, Anna Ancher

Daily Thoughts 04/10/2012

These are slides for Business Development II Partnerships for Startups.
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AdZFOaKK2nLIZGNrYjUyZm1fMTkzY3RuZ3JwZ3Y
I found them to be quite interesting.  A lot of it was learning about partnerships.

I started doing the Codeacademy exercises.  Once it reaches arrays it becomes incredibly challenging for me.   I'll probably be spending a bit of time on this every single day.  I also spent some time on Lynda.com listening to videos on software.

I read Shelf Awareness today  which is a newsletter on the book trade.  There are two editions which I read, Shelf Awareness for Readers and Shelf Awareness Pro.  It is a good way to keep up with the book industry.

I made a mistake today and went to the open house for the Masters in Publishing which is different than the Certificate in Publishing at New York University.  I did learn about some new resources from the dean of the school and had an excellent cup of coffee, but I was at the wrong meeting.

A few things which I found interesting were

David Carr's Media Equation Column from the New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/business/columns/media_equation/index.html

An article with the title Apple's Ipad Is the Only Table People Know
http://news.yahoo.com/apples-ipad-only-tablet-people-know-124138038.html


Web Bits

A Feast of Data To Interpret in New Pew Survey of Book Readers About E-books
http://www.idealog.com/blog/a-feast-of-data-to-interpret-in-new-pew-survey-of-book-readers-about-ebooks

10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designs
http://flavorwire.com/277657/10-crazy-and-unusual-book-designs?all=1