Daily Thoughts 04/28/2021

 

Buck Rogers Famous Funnies No. 214, Frank Frazetta Cover Artist

Daily Thoughts 04/28/2021

I read some more of Alien Oceans.  The author Kevin Peter Hand describes using a diving sphere to dive in the deep oceans.  He also describes how it was not until 1977 that people discovered life near deep thermal vents in the ocean on Earth.

I checked the library new book displays.

I put in two orders of new books.

We had a meeting for the Strategic Planning Committee this morning.

I did some weeding in the 800s in the mezzanine.

I read some poems with a colleague for National Poetry Month.  Tomorrow is Poem in Your Pocket Day.  We put some poems in a basket for people to take.

Broadening Broadband, Editorial Meredith Schwarz

https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=Broadening-Broadband-editorial

Harvard Library Ends Use of the Subject Heading ‘Illegal Alien’

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/harvard-library-ends-use-of-subject-heading-illegal-alien/

 Comic: 'Place of Peace and Security' Bringing the Library Home

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/989164703/comic-place-of-peace-and-security-bringing-the-library-home-during-the-pandemic

 

 

 


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