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Films selected for the 2011 Favorite Films Festival will be shown Friday, January 28th, through Sunday, January 30th, in the Harris Center Cinema on the Grinnell College campus.  The times and features are:

Friday, January 28th:

4:30 pm -- Planet Earth

7:30 pm -- Planet Earth (cont'd)

10:30 pm -- Planet Earth (cont'd)

Saturday, January 29th:

1:30 pm -- Rear Window

7:30 pm -- Rear Window

10:30 pm -- Rear Window

Sunday, January 30th:

The Grinnell College Libraries have received the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award for 2011 from the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. “Receiving an Excellence in Academic Libraries Award is a national tribute to a library and its staff for the outstanding services, programs and leadership they provide to their students, administrators, faculty and community,” said ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen K. Davis.

New Faces

Biva Rajbhandari '12, Reference Assistant

Nathan Clubb '10, Evening Circulation Supervisor, Burling Library

February 19, 2011, Grinnell will send a team of competitors to Iowa State University (Ames) for the Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition. Do you enjoy working on math problems with other people? There are no specific math prerequisites. Our team will be organized by David Romano; contact him by February 8 to participate. Contact him for more information about the contest or visit http://www.central.edu/maa/contest/

What began as a course commemorating the bicentennial of the French Revolution evolved into a 20-year friendship.

The survey for the 2011 Favorite Films Festival has closed with our highest total participation (263 or 11.2 percent) ever! The final vote totals are below:

Mystery/Suspense Films

• Rear Window – 9

Musical Films

• The Sound of Music - 15

Documentary Films

• Planet Earth – 8
• Supersize Me – 8

To break the tie between Planet Earth and Supersize Me, the library's circulation of the films was checked, with Planet Earth having the higher totals.

The Food for Fines program is starting this Monday, November 15, and running through November 30. 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 and in the Listening Room.

See the attached poster Food for Fines for more information.

Voting for the 5th annual Favorite Films Festival begins Sunday, November 7. The campus community is invited to vote for their favorite films in the following categories:

Mystery/Suspense
Musicals
Documentaries

The survey can be accessed through PioneerWeb beginning November 7th at midnight. The only requirement is that the film must be a part of Burling Library's video collection. A link is available on the survey to the library's catalog for searching.