Daily Thoughts 12/09/2020

 

Illustration by Boris Dolgov for August Derleth's short story " The Dweller In Darkness" from Weird Tales, November 1944, p. 9.

Daily Thoughts 12/09/2020

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I read some more of Team Human.  I am reading about how digital industries are often winner take all, with only a limited group of people making it to the top.

I also read some more of Lovecraft Country.  The setting is the America of the 1950s.  The book has many references to Jim Crow and how unsafe traveling was for African Americans.  This is combined with Lovecraftian horror.  It makes for an odd juxtaposition.  

Denver's Tattered Cover Bookstore Is Now the Largest Black Owned Bookstore in the U.S.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/85096-denver-s-tattered-cover-bookstore-is-sold-to-two-entrepreneurs.html


This Ultra-Green Library Offers Hands-On Environmental Learning

http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/ultra-green-library-offers-hands-environmental-learning


Final Push for Covid Relief: ALA Issues Broad Call for Library Advocates

http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2020/12/final-push-covid-relief-ala-issues-broad-call-library-advocates


Needham Library Offers Chromebooks to Check Out

https://patch.com/massachusetts/needham/needham-library-offers-chromebooks-checkout




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