Daily Thoughts 8/6/2010
A brief look at a social network http://bookcalendar.wackwall.com/ I found Wackwall on the Ning Bookblogs. It is interesting to look at.
I worked on selecting authors for more shelf talkers today. These are small signs which you put next to a particular author indicating three to five similar authors. I focused on initially picking out authors who are popular with a lot of books in our library. People like Jodi Picoult, Debbie Macomber, W.E.B. Griffin, David Weber, Elizabeth Lowell, John Irving, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, and others. I will be doing the mystery section once I am done with the fiction.
I also did the monthly requests for the book mobile today. There were a lot of requests for Daphne Du Maurier, specifically Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. They also requested Rebecca as a dvd. Michelangelo is also a very popular topic. We get requests for books on him almost every time. They also requested Erma Bombeck and a few other humorists.
In addition, as always, I checked the displays to make sure they were up to date. I also wrote a flyer for the Brown Bag Book Talk which we are going to have on August 12, 2010. Someone also asked for us to do a discussion about ebooks in the library setting. It might take me a little bit to figure out more about this. I am thinking about signing up for the Ebooks Libraries at the Tipping Point conference on September 29, 2010.
http://ebook-summit.com/
I inished up my class for Readers Advisory 101 online today. I sent in my final assignment for the class today. Soon I'll probably get a certificate for the class. I handed the certificate for the library advocacy class I took online as well. It has been an interesting time taking the class. I'll probably go back and look through the transcripts of the chat sessions again for the Readers Advisory 101 class.
I did not have time to read reviews today. It was simply too busy. It is evening and I am typing this up. I did not read anything on the train this time either. Instead I took the time to write my thoughts down in a journal. I keep lined journals where I write up my reviews longhand before I put them in the computer. I take notes in them while I am reading but never go back and read them again. I have three blank journals right now in my shoulder bag. I have a Manhattan Portage LTD shoulder bag which I use all the time. It is the second one I have bought. They have proven to be very sturdy and good for carrying books to conferences and other places.
