2025 Library - Wrapped Up!
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It's time for the end-of-year popularity contest! What did you love the most from the Library this year?
Once again phone chargers reigned supreme, with 1200+ checkouts at the desk. But we're much more than phone chargers and tape dispensers.. Let's take a look at the rest of our collections and see what ELSE you loved!
Top Books
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being / Rick Rubin and Neil Strauss, 2023
- How To Think When You Draw / Lorenzo, 2018-21
- Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art / edited by Simon Hunegs, 2024
- Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning / Karen Michelle Barad, 2007
- Life Is Not Useful / Aliton Krenak, 2023
Top Graphic Novels
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands / Kate Beaton, 2022
- Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror / Junji Itō, 2013
- Nobrow. 7 Brave New World / Fifteen different cartoonists and 30 illustrators, 2012
- Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods / Florent Chavouet, 2011
- Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir / by Ai Weiwei and Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini, 2024
Top Artists' Books
- Where You Are: A Book of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost / 16 different artists, 2013
- Flux Paper Events / George Maciunas, 1976
- Mohamed Bourouissa: Horseday / Mohamed Bourouissa, 2016
- The Sun’s Shadow / Son Ni, 2017
- Blind / Sophie Calle, 2011
Top Tech Bits & Pieces
- Charger Wall Block - Power for those cables!
- USB-C Charging Cable - Android & newer iPhones
- Lighting Charging Cable - Older iPhones
- Headphones - Sennheiser
- 3-in-1 Card Reader - SD & MicroSD Card Reader
Top Oddball Things
- Plinth - Our plinths are part of the main University collection on the 4th floor right now!
- Bookstand - White vinyl coated!
- 1.75" Button Maker - includes press & punch!
- Plant - ZZ Plant
- Mannequin - Standing mannequin
Top Sustainability Books
- Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast / John Vaillant, 2023
- Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada / edited by Elysia French and Amanda White, (Artist), 2024
- My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love / edited by Jamaica Kincaid, 2024
- The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World / by Robin Wall Kimmerer, illustrations by John Burgoyne, 2024
- Pacific Northwest Plant Knowledge Cards / Jen McMullen and John Bradkey Williams, 2018
Top Neurotools
Top Games
- Held by the Land Deck: 45 Ways to Use Indigenous Plants for Healing & Nourishment = Wa Ch’Ãch’istway Ta TemÃxw / Leigh Joseph, 2024
- Machi Koro : A Fast Paced, City Building, Dice Rolling Card Game / designed by Masao Suganuma and Tao Hino, illustrated by Noboru Hotta, 2014
- Settlers of Catan / Klaus Teuber, art by Michael Menzel, 2020 edition
- Wavelength / Wolfgang Warsch, Alex Hague, and Justin Vickers, 2020
- Codenames: Top Secret Word Game /design by Vlaada Chvátil, illustration by Stéphane Gantiez, Tomáš Kučerovský, and Filip Murmak, 2015