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Revision as of 19:56, 18 February 2016
Library: What's the point?
There's already a public library!
Since there's a public library, we're going to focus on books that fill the needs of people using the space right now.
Anyone can access what they want over the internet almost all the time!
If electronic books are already accessible, we can focus on the people who would still prefer to use a paper copy.
A more refined goal:
The Library can serve expert and hacker-y literature to people in the space right now.
How do we get there?
- First: Understand what books we have.
- Second: Create a process to acquire hacker-y books and expert references.
- Third: Prune our shelves a bit. Bring the average quality up.
How many books do we have right now?
A book barcode scannning effort was performed in October-December 2015 using noisebridge-bookscanner. We scanned tons of books over 15-20 hours. How many? A lot.
Right now we have:
- 1784 books with ISBNs, they are organized by section
- 5 boxes of books that do not have ISBNs (mostly too old)
The library-org webapp has:
- 1449 books have been ingested into library-org using Open Library
- 335 of these need additional processing (1784 less 1449)
What can I do?
- Initiative 1: Add dewey decimal system to library
- Initiative 2: Collect sets of topic books from experts and source these books
- Initiative 3: Begin the process of flagging books to be stored in our stacks
- Initiative 4: Improve library-org
Initiative 1: Dewey Decimal!
- Label all 1449 books already in library-org with ISBNs on the spine
- Recommended to use colored labels by broad subject
- Label the shelves and sort the books into their locations
- This could be supported by the library-org app, using a checklist or something. Since you can see the spine it may not be necessary
- library-org needs a utility to allow you to manually edit an entry's dewey decimal (to add missing ones)
Initiative 2: Source New Books
- Are you really good at something or reasonably well read? Make us a list of must-have books!
- Add themed lists here: Resources/Library/Dead_Tree#Suggested Books
- You can help acquire books by sourcing books on these lists!
- Don't subtract them from the lists though, we can make a system for checking them off
Initiative 3: Flag books for the stacks
- We don't plan to get rid of books, but we do plan to take them off the shelves
- Normal libraries have 'stacks' but we have boxes. We can call our boxes 'the stacks'
- This needs accompanied with a flagging system in library-org so we know a book is in the 'stacks'
- Another thought: we should also label the boxes and say which box each book is in, inside library-org
Initiative 4: Improve library-org
- library-org is a flask app
- Current capabilities: receive new books, search books.
- Manual add form, but first we need to get our data model stable.
- Connect a fallback API. OpenLibrary only has about 80% coverage, so far.
- Report books not in Open Library, so they can get better.
Library Organizing Application: library-org
An application exists to organize our books and submit new books by ISBN.
Go to application: http://library.noisebridge.net:8080
Sorting
The library books were last sorted in labeled during the October 2015 Noisebridge Refresh.
We could add dewey decimal tags to each book using the library application.
Other Hackerspaces with Libraries
- Hackerbot Labs Koha?
- LVL1
- ACKspace List in a Wiki
- Bridgewire Dead Tree setup
- Garoa Hacker Clube Koha
Suggested Books
People with experience and opinions about various topics can add recommendations below for books we should buy for the library.
Mathematics
Curated by: begriffs
Title | Author | ISBN |
---|---|---|
Calculus | Spivak | 978-0914098911 |
Calculus Vol 1 | Apostol | 978-0471000051 |
Calculus Vol 2 | Apostol | 978-0471000075 |
Principles of Mathematical Analysis | Rudin | 978-0070856134 |
Real and Complex Analysis | Rudin | 978-0070542341 |
Calculus on Manifolds | Spivak | 978-0805390216 |
Counterexamples in Analysis | Gelbaum | 978-0486428758 |
Linear Algebra Done Right | Axler | 978-3319110790 |
Linear Algebra Problem Book | Halmos | 978-0883853221 |
Algebra | Lang | 978-0387953854 |
Algebra | Isaacs | 978-0821847992 |
Topology | Munkres | B004DX5K5K |
General Topology | Kelley | 978-0923891558 |
Counterexamples in Topology | Steen | 978-0486687353 |
Beginning Logic | Lemon | 978-0915144501 |
A Mathematical Introduction to Logic | Enderton | 978-0122384523 |
Mathematical Logic | Ebbinghaus | 978-0387942582 |
Model Theory | Marker | 978-0387987606 |
Set Theory | Jech | 978-3540440857 |
Elementary Geometry from an Advanced Standpoint | Moise | 978-0201508673 |
Introduction to Geometry | Coxeter | 978-0471504580 |
Geometry: Euclid and Beyond | Hartshorne | 978-0387986500 |
Electronics
Curated by: Dakota
Title | Author | ISBN |
---|---|---|
Getting Started in Electronics | Mims III, Forrest M. | 978-0945053286 |
The Art of Electronics | Horowitz, Paul | 978-0521809269 |
Books of Interest - Aestetix
Curated by: aestetix
Title | Author | Suggested By |
---|---|---|
Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R Hofstader | aestetix |
The Art of Computer Programming | Don Knuth | aestetix |
1984 | George Orwell | aestetix |
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution | Steven Levy | aestetix |
Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | aestetix |
The Code Book | Simon Singh | aestetix |
Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | aestetix |
Code | Charles Petzold | aestetix |
The Annotated Turing | Charles Petzold | aestetix |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | aestetix |
Ulysses | James Joyce | aestetix |
The Magus | John Fowles | aestetix |
The Collector | John Fowles | aestetix |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | aestetix |
Technopoly | Neil Postman | aestetix |
The Illuminatus! Trilogy | Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson | aestetix |
Shrodinger's Cat | Robert Anton Wilson | aestetix |
The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | aestetix |
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | aestetix |
The Hacker Crackdown | Bruce Sterling | aestetix |
I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | aestetix |
Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | aestetix |
The Gold Bug Variations | Richard Powers | aestetix |
The Codebreakers | David Kahn | aestetix |
Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | aestetix |
Little Brother | Cory Doctorow | aestetix |
Books of Interest - Mitch
Curated by: Mitch
V | Thomas Pynchon | Mitch |
Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | Mitch |
White Noise | Don DeLillo | Mitch |
In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | Mitch |
The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | Mitch |
Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | Mitch |
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture | Arthur Evans | Mitch |
Foucault's Pendulum | Umberto Eco | Mitch |
Quantum Psychology | Robert Anton Wilson | Mitch |
In the Absence of the Sacred | Jerry Mander | Mitch |
Dancer From the Dance | Andrew Holleran | Mitch |
An Arrow's Flight | Mark Merlis | Mitch |
To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Mitch |
The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | Mitch |
Passage to India | E. M. Forster | Mitch |