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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. One hundred and fourteen books. I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. I was busier, happier.

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2023 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Kimball (79) – Most weeks I worked here one day and I stopped by a lot of other times, for sub shifts or just to get a book. Hartness/Randolph (1) – I got some books out. Previous years: 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I read a lot of books this year but in many ways it wasn’t a great year for me (it’s improving) so I have mixed feelings about the sheer length of this list and am hoping to read LESS this year. I started to read 144 books and finished 142 but kept up with a few I maybe shouldn’t have. average read per month: 12.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I started and finished 115 books. One more book got added to my best in show category: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, though I felt like I read a lot of good books this year. Here are stats for the books that I finished. ebook to book ratio: 63:52. Here are stats for the books that I finished.

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

We are not a disparate collection of books,: Today’s libraries function as vibrant community centers that contribute to the social, cultural, and educational fabric of our neighborhoods, enriching the lives of young and old. Campaigns all across the US, in conservative areas, to ban books. The four biggest issues these days are: 1.

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Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I went to college there was a book "famous" in economics called Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics , about the manipulation of data. In reporting on transit ridership, I am bothered when they don't report ridership by bus line or day of the week, but "by the year." That's crazy.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

While I haven’t read the book yet, a New Year’s Day review in the New York Times Book Review got me thinking. After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). What might compass over map mean? Nothing else will do.

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