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04/9/13
A team made up of Drake Community Library and Grinnell College Library staff has been selected to take part in ILEAD USA (Innovative Librarians Explore, Apply and Discover). This prestigious year-long program is designed to help library staff understand and respond to user needs through the use of...
ILEAD
04/9/13
The Grinnell College Libraries have been selected to participate in the new program "Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success," to examine the impact of the library on student success and help academic libraries contribute to assessment activities on their campuses. The program...
assessment, student success
01/18/13
New Faces
We welcome two new research tutors this spring: Irene Bruce '15 and Anthony Wenndt '15. Stop by Burling's research desk to meet Irene and Anthony (and our other four tutors) and for help with your research during their afternoon and evening shifts.
Databases
Europa World Plus is the...
11/5/12
Readers’ Guide Retrospective (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rgr) provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines. This important resource offers access to information about history, culture, science and...
trial databases
11/1/12
Voting has begun for the films to be shown at the seventh annual Grinnell College Favorite Films Festival.
Members of the college community are invited to vote for their favorite films in three categories:
Japanese Animated Films (Anime)
Historical Fiction Films
James Bond Film (in honor of the...
announcements
10/23/12
Digital Grinnell is a system for making selected scholarly and creative work of Grinnell faculty, students, and staff accessible, searchable, and visible to the world while preserving it for the long term. Contributing to the "free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas" that is part of Grinnell...
digital grinnell, repository
10/12/12
The online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series (http://www.europaworld.com/welcome?authstatuscode=202) are renowned as some of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250...
trial databases
10/4/12
Grinnell students, faculty, and staff now have access to the research collections at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology (http://www.lindahall.org/), one of this country's great research collections in STE fields. This is the result of a strategic partnership between...
collections, research
09/26/12
On Monday, 15 April 2013, the Grinnell College Faculty voted in favor of a resolution presented by the Open Access Task Force, committing themselves to expanding access to their forthcoming scholarly articles. According to the resolution, faculty give Grinnell College permission to disseminate...
open access
09/5/12
The Center for Prairie Studies and the Grinnell College Libraries have collaborated in the installation of two dramatic photographs of prairie plants that have been hung on the first floor of Burling Library, on the east and west brick walls (south side). Created by the Land Institute in Salina,...
prairie plants
