Daily Thoughts 8/18/2010
I finished reading Bitter Angels last night. It had a surprise ending and a unique story. It is something I'll definitly be writing a review on later in the week.
Today was another steady day. I read over some of the requirements for a conservation grant. There are a number of questions I have to find out before applying. It was interesting finding out what people wanted to know. I also learned that I will be using the acquisitions module directly built into our catalog. This allows EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) of our orders. It also shows when items are on order.
I had the Graphic Novels Club today. We are getting more people coming to the club. I think we ended up with fourteen people today which is not bad. There were quite a few books checked out. They picked out a few books on cartooning, Battle Angel Alita, Naruto, Inu Yasha, Scott Pilgrim which just came out as a movie, The Incredible Hulk versus X Force, as well as a few art books which I had brought in-- one on Mucha, and one on Maxfield Parrish as well as a book on How To Draw Manga. One person brought their sketch book. We also gave away free comics from Con Edison called The Power of Green Go Green Save Some Green featuring the Green Lantern about saving electricity.
I also got a book on interlibrary loan called Bring On The Books For Everybody How Literary Culture Becomes Popular Culture by Jim Collins. It is an academic title. I am finding the book very entertaining. He is writing about how Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Oprah Winfrey, beach reading, book superstores, and digital culture are creating a new open view of literary reading. It is a different approach to the classics with a different vision of the meaning of literature. He asks why the Pulitzer Prize puts a book on the New York Times Bestseller list.
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