Reader's Advisory and Tattoos

There is an interesting article on readers's advisory based on a customer's tattoos in the March 9 issue of American Libraries Direct (ALA):

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/03/01/inked-readers-advisory/

American Sign Language TED Talk

If you are interested in the American Sign Language class we are offering in April, you might find this brief TED talk to be helpful.  Christine Sun Kim shares her view of ASL as a rich, visual language.

 http://t.ted.com/AsHZObG

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

Amazon Opens Book Stores

Amazon has entered the book store market, opening stores in 7 states:  California, Illinois, Massachusettes, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington.

The bookstores are designed to offer the same curated experience as the website, with shelf content determined by online sales and interest.  Popular books are shelved with several other books that an interested reader might purchase.

Someone I know visited the bookstore in Columbus Circle, NYC, and said he purchased more books than expected and planned to buy 4 more online. 

If you are wondering, MD will be getting a store in Bethesda so you can check it out yourself.



For a list of the locations:  https://www.amazon.com/b?node=13270229011

For an interesting article on the stores, check out these articles:

USA Today:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/05/24/amazon-brings-its-physical-bookstore-new-york/102071054/

NY Magazine:  http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/06/why-is-amazon-building-bookstores.html