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SELCOtv Features MNBA 2016 Booktalks

Just in time for the 2016 Minnesota Book Awards, SELCO staff will “booktalk” each of this year’s 32 finalists for SELCOtv. A special YouTube playlist aggregates the videos as they are posted. During the days leading up to the awards ceremony on April 16, 1-2 booktalks from the eight award categories will be posted each day.

Here is a selection of those shared thus far in the individual MNBA genre categories:

Poetry: Home Studies by Julie Gard
Children’s Literature: Dad’s First Day by Mike Wohnoutka
Minnesota: Minnesota State of Wonder by Brian Peterson, stories by Kerri Westenberg
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction: Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Karen Babine
Novel & Short Story: The Patron Saints of Lost Comfort Lake by Rachel Coyne

SELCOtv features MNBA booktalks

The 27th Annual Minnesota Book Awards Gala is just days away. In anticipation of this unique literary event, SELCOtv features booktalks by the SELCO staff reviewing the four finalists in each of the eight categories.

General Nonfiction reviewed by Donovan Lambright, Automation Librarian
Poetry reviewed by Rachel Gray, Information Services Librarian
Children’s Literature, reveiwed by Amy Nelson, Library Legacy Project Coordinator
Novel & Short Story reviewed by Amy Larson, MNBA Project Librarian
Minnesota reviewed by Tyler Irvin, Technology Support Librarian
Memoir/Creative Nonfiction reviewed by Jennifer Harveland, Communications Specialist
Young People’s Literature, reviewed by Ann Hutton, Executive Director, and Amy Larson, MNBA Project Librarian
Genre Fiction reviewed by Reagen Thalacker, Regional Librarian

Holiday video greeting

The SELCO staff share their annual video holiday card with visions of sugar plums!

New SELCO Website

SELCO’s newly designed website launched January 6!

The website was crafted to reflect two years of usability testing. It also builds on current technology capable of growing to meet future needs. New features include:

Slide carousel graphically highlighting important news and service offerings
News blog featuring the eight most current news items
SELCOtv feed direct from Youtube, also featuring the eight most current productions

Check out this SELCOtv episode for a quick preview of the new website.