Daily Thoughts 09/27/2020

 

Portrait of a Man Said to be Christopher Columbus, Sebastian Del Piombio, 1519

Daily Thoughts 09/27/2020

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook Group this morning.

I finished reading The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-Lee.  I was hoping there was a more complete description of the collection.  4,000 of the 15,000 books which Hernando Colon son of Christopher Columbus survived in the Cathedral of Seville. This is more of a biography with reflection on books than a book focused on a great library.  I liked reading it, but it was very different than what I originally thought it might be.



It Took Covid Closures to Reveal Just How Much Libraries Do Beyond Lending Books

https://observer.com/2020/09/public-libraries-adapt-to-future-ebooks-digital-community-outreach/?fbclid=IwAR0ZiDBCQWi08zKV22o4fsa2lq19sjai20slM9KJE7uultg6J8VlaV0s5Mc


How the L.A. Library Adjusted to the Covid 19 Pandemic

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-26/how-la-public-library-adjusted-covid-19-pandemic


Banned Books Starts on September 27

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks




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