Links from the Staff - Week of November 30 - December 6, 2014

 Posted for all staff this week were: 

• Maggie M (SP) says: "Gosh I love best of lists..." (12/03/2014)

• It's soooo NPR to call it "NPR's Book Concierge" hee hee.
• http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2014/

•  From Melanie F (KL) - Greetings! (12/05/2014)

• Not only can you read steampunk, but you can live it, too... 
• http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/12/what-the-world-doesnt-need-are-steampunk-luxury-condos/383352/

• A continuation from Maggie M's (SP) 'National Book Award Winners Announced' post to Stafftalk on Nov 21 ... (12/05/2014)
• A thoughtful and poignant response from winner Jacqueline Woodson to a offensive statement made by Daniel Handler as he was MC'ing the National Book Awards on November 19, 2014. The Pain of the Watermelon Joke by Jacqueline Woodson (The Opinion Pages - New York Times, November 28, 2014) 

RA Tip: 2013 National Book Award Finalists Announced

The 2013 National Book Award Finalists were announced just the other day, Wednesday, October 16.

You can find the list of finalists in the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature categories in an article posted by Nora Rawlinson on EarlyWord at: http://tinyurl.com/lc3tf6e

The winners will be announced on November 20.

Just FYI ... I checked the catalog and SCCCLD owns (or has On Order) all of the finalist titles.