The general gist of the list is:

Books teaching you how to draw

Books teaching you how to speak other languages (I got one on Korean, one on how to write in Chinese, and one that teaches phrases in different languages)

The two newest Dog Man books (3 copies of each)

Three new Babysitter's Club comics

Three new Babysitter's Little Sister comics

Some Science Comics books on animals

Bluey books

Pokemon books

Some R.L. Stine books

2 books on flags

Sports books (Hockey, Soccer, and Basketball)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid's newest book (x3)

The newst Wings of Fire graphic novel

The Wild Robot sequels

Some books featuring Muslim characters and/or authors

A bunch of Haunted Canada because our copies are disintegrating from being so well-loved

A book on chess

Cookbooks

Minecraft books

Joke books

Some books on how to handle anxiety (as per a Grade 4's request)

Artists’ Book Display for the week of October 28th, 2019

West of the fifth meridian by Janet Cardiff- Montreal : La revue Numero, 1991

1990 Aids Treatment Project by Giorno Poetry Systems

Saint-Just Vigilantes by Ian Hamilton Finlay- Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989

untitled by Jack Pierson- San Francisco : Jack Hanley Gallery, 1992

Are you surprised to see what made our collection’s Top 5 most borrowed items list in these categories in 2019? Check them out for yourself to see if they’re worth the hype! 

Read more to find the titles in our collection.

Come see a sampling of our Special Collections at the Fine Arts Library. We’re thrilled to share these collections with you at our annual Open House. You’ll see that we have more than just art books, and we’ll be showcasing facsimiles, scrolls, artists’ books, postcards, photographs, and much more. Meet the librarians, ask them questions, and enjoy some refreshments. Here’s a sneak preview of some of the items we’ll be presenting.

Open House: September 18, 2-5pm *Open to the Harvard ID holders.

Virulence: An Infectious Card Game

Age Range: 8+ Number of Players: 2-5 Type: Card Skills Taught: Strategic Thinking, Biology, Science

A quick and simple card game focused on viruses infecting a host cell - and how they assemble and replicate inside that host cell.

Why it’d be good for a library collection: 

Educational

Small storage space

Family-friendly

Simple gameplay

Cheap

Ecosystem: Coral Reef

Age Range: 8+ Number of Players: 1-6 Type: Card Skills Taught: Strategic Thinking, Biology, Science

Dive deep to build your own ecological network in Ecosystem: Coral Reef, a card-drafting game of marine competition. Players choose, pass, and arrange cards representing a diversity of organisms found in the Great Barrier Reef, including coral, clownfish, sea turtles, and sharks.

Why it’d be good for a library collection:

Educational

Small storage space

Playable by various ages

Can be used for programming

Yamslam

Age Range: 8+ Number of Players: 2-4 Type: Dice Skills Taught: Strategic Thinking, Math, Addition

A strategy game involving dice (similar to Yahtzee but not quite the same).

Why it’d be good for a library collection: 

Educational

Small storage

Simple gameplay

Literacy not needed