never go home » books http://www.nevergohome.com always moving Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Reading list http://www.nevergohome.com/2010/01/11/reading-list/ http://www.nevergohome.com/2010/01/11/reading-list/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:55:20 +0000 dnw http://www.nevergohome.com/?p=786 I am taking full advantage of the of fact that I work in a library.  I am too lazy to actually enter this into GoodReads or type out my reading list so here is a screenshot of my interlibrary loan items:

And here are the items I have checked out from NCSU:

I have actually read a little bit of each of these books except for the books by the two Jonathans: Chronic City (Jonathan Lethem) and Eating Animals (Jonathan Safran Foer).  Those two just came in and I will be picking them up tomorrow.  My goal is to actually finish a couple these books before they are due or recalled!  Maybe I will get a review (or a haiku review) written for one or two.

That last item listed is actually a Flip camera which I am borrowing to get some experience using a Flip and to learn how our tech queue system works from a patron perspective.  My general feeling is we have way too many systems for our patrons and we need better integration.  However, it is one of those things where solving the problem is a lot harder than complaining about it.  The interlibrary loan system, for instance, is a different vendor than our regular card catalog system (aka the “ILS”), a different database type, and has different data formats.  Just getting books from the two systems to appear on the same page (not even in the same format) takes some effort.  I am starting to look at these different pieces since we hope to eventually create mobile instances of all these tools and it is quickly becomes pretty overwhelming…but would be very satisfying to solve!

]]> http://www.nevergohome.com/2010/01/11/reading-list/feed/ 0 would you like something to read? http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/07/27/would-you-like-something-to-read/ http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/07/27/would-you-like-something-to-read/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:43:19 +0000 dnw http://www.nevergohome.com/wordpress/?p=511 I have a couple of books to loan/give out if anyone wants some late summer reading material:
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel: This is a great coming of age story done in graphic novel form. Sorta like Dave Eggers but by a lesbian with a different story.

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. We have two copies of this (let me know if you are missing YOUR copy and I will send it to you) including one with a big silly photo of Michael Douglas on the cover. The cover is my least favorite part of this book. Otherwise, I think you would like it if you haven’t read it yet. I’ve been reading and enjoying his (that is Chapon’s, not Douglas’) latest book this month.

Um, I also have a copy of iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business UPDATED edition. I didn’t actually read this one but USA Today has some nice things to say about the book on the back cover and it is published by a leading publisher that is celebrating its bicentennial. Anyone want it?

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