Daily Thoughts 4/1/2011 (The Wise Man's Fear)

gelehrter beim Studium, deutsch, 18. Jh., Öl auf Leinwand, ca. 24 x 18 cm
8th century

Daily Thoughts 4/1/2011

I read some more of The Wise Man's Fear this morning.  The main character is learning a martial art called Ketan which is interesting.

I checked the displays, put in some more surveys, and checked the gift books today.  It has been another quiet, steady day.  We have totals for all of March for the survey.

Three more books came in for me to read, Metatropolis edited by John Scalzi, The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones, The Executioness by Tobias Buckell.  I thought The Executioness was a double novel, but it isn't.

I also have been thinking abou the supplies that will be needed for the adult summer reading program.  We'll probably have an end of summer raffle with a gift basket.

I am planning on taking Streaming Video in the Library: Trends and Best Practices—One Year Later which is a webinar available on April 19 from 12-1 p.m. through Library Journal

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/toolswebcast/889794-388/streaming_video_in_the_library.html.csp



Web Bits

Dress Made of Golden Books
http://home.comcast.net/~ryannovelline/16.html#

An ebook for true book lovers
http://shelftalk.spl.org/2011/04/01/the-ebook-reader-for-true-booklovers/

Daily Thoughts 3/30/2011 (The Wise Man's Fear)

[Main Reading Room under construction in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building]
Shows circular central desk and reading room desks.  Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1880 and 1896]

Daily Thoughts 3/30/2011

I finished watching Star Wars yesterday and started watching The Empire Strikes Back.  They have a very different feel to them than when I first saw them. The story is very basic.

I also have been reading more of The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.  It has a beautiful quality to it.  The fantasy has elements of intrigue, romance, games, music, and poetry.  It is not swords and sorcery.  The story is quite sophisticated.

Daily Thoughts 3/27/2011 (The Wise Man's Fear)

Ishiyakushi  Print shows an elderly traveler or monk reading banners hanging above a watering trough; his hat is on the ground behind him. Date Created/Published: 1804.

Daily Thoughts 3/27/2011

I am taking a little break this weekend.  Right now, I am reading The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.  I am also watching the original Star Wars trilogy on video.  I am enjoying reading The Wise Man's Fear.  The book is on the Locus Bestseller list as well as the New York Times Bestseller list.  It is fantasy. Most fantasy books do not make it there.

Daily Thoughts 3/25/2011 (The Wise Man's Fear)

Lesende im Scherenstuhl. Um 1900. Aquarell und Kohlezeichnung. 69 x 57,5 cm, by Max Hendricke.

Daily Thoughts 3/25/2011

Today, I started reading Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear.  I rather like that the main character studies both alchemy and music at the university where he is learning magic.

This morning, I checked the displays, updated the Twitter account, and did some more tabulating for the survey.  We have 147 surveys that were brought in directly by the library and 44 that were sent in via the website so far.

We are working on putting together an annotated Flickr! gallery of historical photographs of our library.  I already printed up a few color pictures to put in one of the display cases.

Today has been slow and steady.  I took some time to clean my desk and update my phone book.  I also checked out the book, Getting More How To Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals In The Real World by Stuart Diamond.

The March 17, 2011 New York Times Book Review has a review of The Information by James Gleick.  I liked reading the book.  It was information as the underpinning of how the universe works from the positive and negative spin of electrons, the code in dna, to the zeros and ones in computers.

Hopefully, I will get a chance to go to a Meetup to tour The Swann Galleries in Manhattan with the New York Library Club and the New York Librarians Meetup on April 5, 2011.  It would be a nice break and a chance to see something interesting.