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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?
- How To Think When You Draw / Lorenzo, 2018-2020.
- The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas / edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern ; photographs by Mike Slack, 2014
- Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands / with contributions by Hilton Als, Stephane Aquin, Keith Hartley, Angus Cook, and Peter Doig, 2013
- 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
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Sun Gardens : Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins / Larry J. Schaaf ; edited by Joshua Chuang, 2018
Top Graphic Novels
- The Collected Toppi / Sergio Toppi ; translation by Jeremy Melloul, 2019
- Tank Girl / Hewlett & Martin, 2009
- Wendy / Walter Scott, 2014
- Goodnight Punpun / Inio Asano, 2016-17
- Saga / written by Brian K. Vaughan ; illustrated by Fiona Staples ; lettering & design by Fonografiks, 2012-2022
Top Sustainability Books
- Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations / edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, 2021
- Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth / Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez, 2022
- 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!)
- Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future / Kate Franklin and Caroline Till, 2018
- 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!)
- Lessons From a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding and Biophilia Through Creative Reciprocity / Julie Andreyev, 2021
-
Living a Feminist Life / Sara Ahmed, 2017
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
- Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking / David Bayles and Ted Orland, 1993
- Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming / by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, 2013
Top Films Streamed on Criterion-on-Demand
Top Databases (via A-Z list)
- Westar Music and Sound Effects
- Academic Search Complete
- BBC Sound Effects
- Criterion on Demand
- JSTOR
Top Database Search Terms (last 3 months only)
- "animation"
- "sound"
- "food"
- "robert mapplethorpe the perfect moment"
- "photography"
Top Board Games & Gaming Equipment
Top Tech
- Lighting Charger
- USB-C Charger
- Charging Block
- Headphones
- Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter
Top Neurotools
Top Props and Other Other Things
- Plinth
- Plant
- Book Display Stand
- Bike Pump
- Umbrella