SD&T Winter/Spring courses

Over the next few days we're going to start announcing the classes we are offering for winter/spring 2018.

Keep your eyes on your email for these announcements and contact SD&T to register for any or all of the programs.

Teaser: 1st class for spring scheduled - more to come

We've scheduled the first of many classes for the winter/spring 2018 courses, but we're not telling what it is 😉.  More details to come in the next few days.

Five Laws of Library Science

Siyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was a mathematician and librarian from India.  In 1931 he proposed the following:

1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The library is a growing organism

Not being a librarian, I was unfamiliar with these.  If you are too, check out this article  on Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_laws_of_library_science

Also, there is this infographic from USC:  https://librarysciencedegree.usc.edu/resources/infographics/dr-s-r-ranganathans-five-laws-of-library-science/

Better yet, read the original:  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b99721;view=1up;seq=11

Tsundoku - when you have more books than you could ever read

The Japanese word tsundoku refers to a situation where you have books piled up in your home that you don't read.  I expect that this situation is familiar to many of us, perhaps you are even guilty of it yourself (I know that I am).

There was an interesting article about this in the Huffington Post, you can read it here:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/theres-a-japanese-word-for-people-who-buy-more-books-than-they-can-actually-read_us_58f79b7ae4b029063d364226