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Revision as of 19:27, 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.
The Point! A more refined goal:
The Library can serve expert and hacker-y literature to people in the space right now.
How many books we have right now?
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)
What does the library-org app have right now? The library-org app:
- 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 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.
Initiative 2: Source New Books
- This has been started if you dead_tree#Suggested Books scroll down
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.
Library Catalog
A library catalog system for Noisebridge would be awesome! Here are some requirements, adding items to this list doesn't actually mean anything.
Cataloging and checkout are separable problems.
High Priority
- Open source software with a nice license that wont fuck us over in the future.
- Web based.
- Quickly add books to the library via ISBN or bar code scan. patrickod is working on this here
- Book search returns the last known location of a book (such as "Green Shelf" or "Book Case 8").
- Books can have a checked out status in addition to its last known location, date of check out should be displayed.
- Users can check out books without the need to register, as in when they check out a book it'll ask for a name and email, blank entries should be allowed as anonymous.
- Users who leave an email address will get a reminder email with a list of books they have checked out once a week.
Low Priority
- Integration with http://openlibrary.org.
- Book search returns results with descriptions and a cover scraped from some other part of the internet.
- Library database in an open format to easily export later on.
- Ability to use a barcode scanner.
Possible Solutions
- Writing it ourselves
- Open Source Koha Developed in NZ and open sourced as a gift to the world (koha means gift in Maori).
- LibLime Koha Free but closed Fork of Koha
- Librarything
- Evergreen Started by Georgia Public Library System -Mostly large libraries
- Obiblio
- SelfShelfSwap Alpha Code (No updates since 2012)
Other Hackespaces 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 |
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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 |