The 2012 Grammy winners were announced on Sunday, February 12. Logan Library has the following Grammy-winning CD albums:

Album of the Year: 21 by Adele
Best Pop Vocal Album: 21 by Adele
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Duets II by Tony Bennett
Best Dance/Electronica Album: Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites by Skrillex
Best Rock Album: Wasting Light by Foo Fighters
Best Alternative Music Album: Bon Iver by Bon Iver
Best R&B Album: F.A.M.E. by Chris Brown
Best Rap Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
Best Country Album: Own The Night by Lady Antebellum
Best New Age Album: What's It All About by Pat Metheny
Best Jazz Vocal Album: The Mosaic Project by Terri Lyne Carrington
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Forever by Corea, Clarke & White
Best Gospel Album: Hello Fear by Kirk Franklin
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: And If Our God Is For Us... by Chris Tomlin
Best Latin Pop, Rock, Or Urban Album: Drama Y Luz by Maná
Best Regional Mexican Or Tejano Album: Bicentenario by Pepe Aguilar
Best Bluegrass Album: Paper Airplane by Alison Krauss & Union Station
Best Blues Album: Revelator by Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best Folk Album: Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars
Best Reggae Album: Revelation Pt 1: The Root Of Life by Stephen Marley
Best World Music Album: Tassili by Tinariwen
Best Musical Theater Album: The Book Of Mormon
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: The King's Speech by Alexandre Desplat
Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Elmer Gantry by Robert Aldridge

You can find the full list of winners and nominees here.

Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize winner and co-author of national bestseller Half the sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide will be speaking at Utah State University today, February 28, 2012, in the Eccles Conference Center at 4 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Center for Women and Gender and the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost at USU.

We'll see you there!

Were you in the Logan Library this last Tuesday, February 21? If so, you may have noticed that you were far from the only one. We had our 9th busiest day in the history of the Logan Library with 5737 items circulated (that averages to 522 items per hour)!

Thank you for using the library!