It's that time of year again where you're seeing "best of" lists and "favorites of 2015," so we are joining in on the fun.
Here are our (library staff and student worker) favorite books, movies, TV shows, music, and more of 2015.
BOOKS
We read a lot of books in 2015, and some favorites that more than one person mentioned included The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. Check out some of our others favorites on our Staff Favorites Pinterest board:
We watched a lot of movies this year, and none of us overlapped on our favorite, so look at the variety of movies we loved in 2015:
TV SHOWS
There was some great TV this year, and a lot of us enjoyed Fargo, The Americans, Orphan Black, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Check out some of our other favorites:
MUSIC
Like most of the world, the St. Kate's Library is glad Adele is back. Her name came up most for our favorite music of 2015, and it's not hard to see why:
Some of the other songs & musicians that were our favorites this year include:
Sleater Kinney
Lizzo
D'Angelo and The Vanguard
Wiz Khalifa
"Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
"Writing's on the Wall" by Sam Smith
"Locked Away" by R. City featuring Adam Levine;
"Good for You" by Selena Gomez
"Photograph" by Ed Sheeran
"Can't Feel My Face" by the Weeknd
"Girls Chase Boys" by Ingrid Michelson
"Style" by Taylor Swift
"Take Me to Church" by Hozier
"Chandelier" by Sia
"Want to Want Me" by Jason Derulo
"The Shade" by Metric
"WTF" by Missy Elliot featuring Pharrell Williams
"Phone in a Pool" by Ben Folds
What are some of YOUR favorites of 2015? What did we miss?
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There are so many "best of" and "favorites of" 2014 lists out there, so we thought it'd be fun to see what library staff and library student workers call their favorites of 2014.
Here are our favorite books, movies, television shows, music, and more that we loved in 2014.
BOOKS
Library staff
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Ms. Marvel: Volume 1 by G. Willow Wilson A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Picket The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid Rowland The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
Library student workers
Noah Gordon by Der Medicus My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover What I Thought was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Divergent Series by Veronica Roth A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Gone Series by Michael Grant
MOVIES
There were a lot of movies that came up again and again, with students and with staff, so we decided to combine them. Here's a word cloud of the movies library staff and library student workers loved this year.
TELEVISION
Library staff
Library staff favorite TV shows include: Gotham, Homeland, The Walking Dead, Falling Skies, Criminal Minds, Sherlock, Bones, NCIC, Covert Affairs, The Roosevelts, and Downton Abbey.
Library student workers
Library student workers favorite TV shows include: Revenge, The Blacklist, New Girl, Brooklyn 99, Broadchurch, Hemlock Grove, Bones, Elementary, NCIS, Once Upon a Time, Project Runway, and Supernatural.
MUSIC
Library staff
Apparently library staff are "All About That Bass." That song by Meghan Trainor came up the most for staff members.
Other musical interests of the staff include: The Avett Brothers, Trampled by Turtles, Father John Misty, Kacey Musgraves, and "Everything is Awesome" from The Lego Movie.
Library student workers
The library student workers were really loving Sam Smith this year.
Other musical interests of our student workers include: James Vincent McMorrow, G-Eazy, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, Lorde, Taylor Swift, One Direction, and Pentatonix. Some songs highlighted include: "Am I Wrong" by Nico & Vinz, "Bang Bang" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nikki Minaj, "Take Me to Church" by Hozier, "All of Me" by John Legend, and "Rude" by Magic.
OTHER FAVORITES
Some library staff members listed some other favorites of 2014 including new staff at the library. There have been a lot of changes in the library, including the introduction of four new staff members and Emily Asch moving into the Library Director position.
Another staff member stated that the "introduction of shutting down interstate highways and malls as a form of protest with the "no justice, no profits" theme" is a favorite from 2014.
YOURS?
So, these are some of our favorites. What are some of yours?
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What a great team of student workers we have in the Libraries, Media Services, & Archives!
Jenaya Farkell
Minneapolis Campus Library student
worker, Jenaya Farkell, won the first Michael J. Baynes Reflective Life Award. This award honors her dedication as a student leader at St. Kate's.
Leslie Muzulu
Media Services student worker, Leslie Muzulu, won the Dean of Students Award. This award celebrates a student who has made an outstanding contribution to St. Kate's during her time here.
Congratulations to both of these outstanding students!
