Welcome to My Public Library

Serving your information needs since 1964

 

Location and Hours of Operation

631 Franklin Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87505

 

  our phone number is (505) 982-2319

e-mail: MyPublicLibrary@WordPress.com

 

My Public Library is open from 10 am to 8 pm Monday through Thursday, 10 am to 10 pm on Friday, 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, and closed on Sunday.

 

 

What’s New at My Public Library

  

Friends Event  

Our Fall fund-raiser generated nearly $3,000 for books and other library materials. Special thanks goes out to our Friends of My Public Library.

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The Summer Reading Program manuals have arrived, this Summer’s theme is “Get the Reading Bug.” We will be reading books about bugs and teaming up with the Museum of Natural History. I kids in grades K through 12 are encouraged to particpate. For more information contact Beth Crist, Library Outreach Director.

 

 

 

 

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Book Reviews

Everything is Miscellaneous

Is the universe ordered or chaotic?

We tend to think of classification and taxonomy as logical rather than arbitrary or based on human bias. The way we order the world reflects the reality of nature. Or does it?

 

Harvard professor David Weinberger contends that Everything is Miscellaneous, and that’s the title of his new book.  Weinberger says that in the past order was bound by the physical world. In the physical world an object can only be in one place at any given point in time. A book, for example, can’t be in two locations simultaneously. The book is bound by the physical laws of nature.

 

Our way of organizing the world: the way that we organize our solar system and the cosmos, the way that we organize society, the way that we organize libraries by Dewey or Library of Congress classification schemes; so says Weingerber, these ways of organizing our world are arbitrary and based on the limitations of the physical.

 

But the reality of the universe isn’t ordered, it’s chaotic, it’s miscellaneous, according to Weinberger.

  

The digital realm, more accurately reflects the reality of the universe. Digital information, for example, isn’t bound by the physical limitations of matter. A digital file or book can be in multiple locations simultaneously.

  

If I have exactly one copy of the book Everything is Miscellaneous in my library, I have to decide how to classify the book which will determine where the book is located, physically, in the library; one book, one location.

 

But a digital copy of the same book could be stored in any number of locations and the classification we assign to it is therefore no longer bound by the physical laws of matter. I can classify the book in a thousand or more ways and still be able to find it because the in the digital realm the book is everywhere and everything I want it to be. That’s why Wienberger says “Everything is Miscellaneous.”

  

What do you think?