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12/15/11
The campus community has selected the three films for the 6th annual Favorite Films Festival. The films are:
Movie Thriller: Silence of the Lambs
Cult Classics: The Big Lebowski
Film Adaptations: To Kill a Mockingbird
The Film Festival is scheduled for Jan. 27-29. More information about...
Favorite Film Festival
11/30/11
The Libraries are now accepting Food for Fines, now through December 10. Students can bring in up to 10 canned or boxed food items for the MICA food pantry and reduce their library fines ($1 per item). Items will be collected at the Burling and Kistle circulation desks.
food for fines
11/15/11
The Libraries' trial of the Films on Demand video streaming service has been extended until December 21, 2011. Patrons may access the full range of films available through the service and are encouraged to share their views of the service as we evaluate it for possible subscription.
To...
trial databases
11/3/11
Voting for the films to be shown at the sixth annual Grinnell College Favorite Films Festival has begun. Members of the college community are invited to log into PioneerWeb and vote for their favorite films in three categories:
•Movie Thrillers•Cult Classics•Film Adaptations
The only limit is...
announcements
10/17/11
Biography In Context (http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/?userGroupName=grin67026) includes 600,000 biographies and brings users face to face with historical figures and today’s most studied newsmakers via videos, audios and images.
Please let us know your thoughts on Biography In Context by emailing...
trial databases
09/27/11
The space formerly known as the Listening Room has officially been renamed the Burling Media Room. While the name change comes after the recent renovation of the space that houses the Libraries’ video and sound collections, it reflects the long-standing need to describe more accurately the...
renovation, services
09/16/11
Four Amazon Kindle and three Barnes and Noble Nook eReaders are now available in the Grinnell College Libraries! They can be checked out for a semester at a time and patrons will be allowed to download their own books to them by using their own Amazon and Barnes and Noble accounts. The...
ereaders, Kindles, Nooks
09/16/11
The “Search for full text” links in some EBSCO databases are not automatically providing users with a link to the Interlibrary Loan [ILL] form. If you wish to ILL an article and the “Search for full text” EBSCO link does not bring you to the ILL form, please contact a librarian – we will help you...
services
09/6/11
ScienceDirect will be down for upgrades on Saturday, September 10, and that faculty will not be able to download ScienceDirect articles for most of the day.
announcements, downtime
08/29/11
JournalFinder and Search for Full Text may be unavailable between 7:00pm and 9:00pm on Friday, September 16 while the system is being upgraded.
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