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2024 Library Wrap Party

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Fashionably late, it's the end-of-year popularity contest at the Library!
What sorts of things did everybody love this year?

  1. How To Think When You Draw / Lorenzo, 2018-2020.
  2. The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas / edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern ; photographs by Mike Slack, 2014
  3. Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands / with contributions by Hilton Als, Stephane Aquin, Keith Hartley, Angus Cook, and Peter Doig, 2013
  4. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers, and Three Dimensional Designers / Josef Müller-Brockmann ; English version by D.Q. Stephenson, 2019
  5. Sun Gardens : Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins / Larry J. Schaaf ; edited by Joshua Chuang, 2018

Top Graphic Novels

  1. The Collected Toppi / Sergio Toppi ; translation by Jeremy Melloul, 2019
  2. Tank Girl / Hewlett & Martin, 2009
  3. Wendy / Walter Scott, 2014
  4. Goodnight Punpun / Inio Asano, 2016-17
  5. Saga / written by Brian K. Vaughan ; illustrated by Fiona Staples ; lettering & design by Fonografiks, 2012-2022

Top Sustainability Books

  1. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations / edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, 2021
  2. Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth / Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez, 2022
  3. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 2015 (also available as an eBook!)
  4. Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future / Kate Franklin and Caroline Till, 2018
  5. Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking / Jason Logan ; conversation with Michael Ondaatje ; photography by Lauren Kolyn, 2018

Top eBooks (all also available in print!)

  1. Lessons From a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding and Biophilia Through Creative Reciprocity / Julie Andreyev, 2021
  2. Living a Feminist Life / Sara Ahmed, 2017
  3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
  4. Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking / David Bayles and Ted Orland, 1993
  5. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming / by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, 2013

Top Films Streamed on Criterion-on-Demand

  1. Window Horses
  2. Moonlight
  3. Sunset Boulevard
  4. Everything Everywhere all at Once
  5. Nice Work

Top Databases (via A-Z list)

  1. Westar Music and Sound Effects
  2. Academic Search Complete
  3. BBC Sound Effects
  4. Criterion on Demand
  5. JSTOR

Top Database Search Terms (last 3 months only)

  1. "animation"
  2. "sound"
  3. "food"
  4. "robert mapplethorpe the perfect moment"
  5. "photography"

Top Board Games & Gaming Equipment

  1. Wavelength
  2. Codenames: Top Secret Word Game
  3. Wingspan
  4. Playing Cards
  5. Polyhedral Dice Set

Top Tech

  1. Lighting Charger
  2. USB-C Charger
  3. Charging Block
  4. Headphones
  5. Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter

Top Neurotools

  1. Tangle
  2. Reading Guide
  3. Visual Timer
  4. Acupressure Ring
  5. Wobble Stool

Top Props and Other Other Things

  1. Plinth
  2. Plant
  3. Book Display Stand
  4. Bike Pump
  5. Umbrella