Resources/Library

2016-06-30T06:54:58Z

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[[Image:NewLibrary.jpg|thumb|right|Our excellent library]]

= How do I add a new book to the library?=

# Find the book on [[openlibrary.org Open Library]]
# Add the book's OLID number to the library-org app: http://library.noisebridge.net/new/
## Remember to put in the secret code and press submit! You will see a green bar when successful.
# Put the book on the shelf under its category.

= 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 Noisebridge right now.

''' How do we get there? Quantify, Expand, Prune! '''

*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 usefulness up.

==Library Catalog: library-org==

An application exists to organize our books and submit new books by ISBN.

Go to application: http://library.noisebridge.net

== How many books do we have right now? ==

A book barcode scannning effort was performed in October-December 2015 using [https://github.com/robbintt/noisebridge_bookscanner noisebridge-bookscanner].

*89 barcodes were not identified. Those books are not yet ingested into library-org. If you find one please add it.

*1609 books have been ingested into library-org using [https://openlibrary.org/ Open Library]

= What can I do? =

== Current Initiatives ==

* '''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 [https://github.com/robbintt/library-org 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'

=== Filtering Books Out ===

# Put books that do not belong on the shelves into the white banker boxes by the bookshelf.
# Tell [[user:robbintt]] if a box fills up
# Leave it by the bookshelves

''' Initiative 4: Improve library-org '''
* library-org is a Flask app
* Current capabilities: receive new books, substring search, add location to each book, register new locations.

==Organizing==

The library books are now only partially organized and need reorganized.

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 =
* [http://www.hackerbotlabs.com/ Hackerbot Labs] Koha?
* [http://www.lvl1.org/2011/07/07/the-library/ LVL1]
* [https://ackspace.nl/wiki/Library ACKspace] List in a Wiki
* [http://bridgewire.org/resources-shops/ Bridgewire] Dead Tree setup
* [https://garoa.net.br/wiki/Biblioteca Garoa Hacker Clube] Koha

=Books We Want!=

People with experience and opinions about various topics can add recommendations below for books we should buy for the library.

=== Mathematics ===

Curated by: begriffs

{|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!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

|-
|  
|-
| Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness
| Knuth
| 978-0201038125
|}

=== "Data Science" ===
(observe the quotes...)

{|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!Title
!Author
!Suggested By

|-
| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
| Nassim Nicholas Taleb
| Danukeru

|-
| Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
| Alex Reinhart
| Danukeru

|}

=== Electronics ===

Curated by: Dakota

{|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!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

{|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|-
!Title
!Author
!Suggested By
|-
|Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
|Douglas R Hofstader
|aestetix
|-
|I Am a Strange Loop
|Douglas R Hofstader
|Danukeru
|-
|The Mind's I
|Daniel Dennett, Douglas R Hofstadter
|Danukeru
|-
|The Society of Mind
|Marvin Minsky
|Danukeru
|-
|The Emotion Machine
|Marvin Minsky
|Danukeru
|-
|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
|-
|The Martian
|Andy Weir
|Danukeru
|}

=== Books of Interest - Mitch ===
Curated by: Mitch

{|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|-
|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
|}

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