Summer 2008 Read

Join us Wednesday, August 27, 2008 F.D. Bluford Library, Seminar room 256-258, 12:30pm

More "The Tipping Point" information....
http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.html

"Accepting diversity or delving outside of your accepted social boundaries and embracing different circumstance absolutely contribute to happiness".

Here is a link to Malcolm Gladwell's speech on TED Talks 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y

Gladwell, a New Yorker staff writer, offers an incisive and piquant theory of social dynamics that is bound to provoke a paradigm shift in our understanding of mass behavioral change. Defining such dramatic turnarounds as the abrupt drop in crime on New York's subways, or the unexpected popularity of a novel, as epidemics, Gladwell searches for catalysts that precipitate the "tipping point," or critical mass, that generates those events. What he finds, after analyzing a number of fascinating psychological studies, is that tipping points are attributable to minor alterations in the environment, such as the eradication of graffiti, and the actions of a surprisingly small number of people, who fit the profiles of personality types that he terms connectors, mavens, and salesmen. As he applies his strikingly counterintuitive hypotheses to everything from the "stickiness," or popularity, of certain children's television shows to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, Gladwell reveals that our cherished belief in the autonomy of the self is based in great part on wishful thinking. Donna Seaman-BookList

Enjoy

Summer 2008

OH MY!..... summer is upon us.

This summer by popular demand we will be reading a Non-Fiction title.

Join us Wednesday, August 27, 2008
F.D. Bluford Library , Seminar room no. 256-258
Bring your lunch, thoughts and questions about ......

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell (2002).

On The New York Times bestsellers list for over a 150 weeks. Gladwell puts an interesting twist on the simple notions of cause and effect. He explores the question: Fads and epidemics, what do they have in common?
The 2002 edition has a afterwards by the author that connects the Tipping Point lessons to a real world library system. Enjoy :-)

Find the Tipping Point in Bluford Library

A&T Stacks- HM 1033.G53 2000
or
A&T Reserves- HM 1033.G53 2002


Fall 2008 teaser.......
Can you tell a book by its movie?

Ponder Poetry

In the spring, Lunch and Literature “Pondered Poetry” in honor of National Poetry Month and part of Bluford Library’s National Library Week celebration, April 14 -18, 2008

I was a little apprehensive about doing poetry for Lunch and Literature however, this worked out smoothly. There was not much preparation as in; time to read a book, taking notes, and come up with thought provoking questions.

I just sent out the word for each attendant to bring their favorite poem from well known and not so well known Black poets for a lunch time read aloud.

Below is a list of the poems presented at our gathering.