Please join the Grinnell College Libraries to celebrate Banned Books Week, Sept. 26–Oct. 2, 2021, by checking out our selected collection of banned/challenged books, recordings, and films on the book display near the Peer Mentoring Study Space on first floor.

The Grinnell College Libraries are preparing for some exciting changes in the Media Room (located in Burling basement) and have completed the first stage. The media collection is now on compact shelving, giving us a lot of extra room!

The Access World News Research Collection provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.

Book Fool: Reading a Bibliophile’s Library is installed now in the Burling Library Gallery in Burling basement. Featuring the Salisbury House Library Collection from Grinnell Special Collections, explore some rare material from the stacks

New to the Burling Library first floor is the Magic Box, a digital display case to feature rotating items from the Salisbury House Library Collection and Grinnell College Special Collections. Through the digital display, you can explore further into the item on display, the collection, and digital projects.

Project Muse® provides Grinnell students, faculty, and staff access to full-text scholarly journals and books in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more.

A resource containing over 2 million images from the world's museums, archives, libraries, scholars, and artists.

ProQuest Central is the largest full-text resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including humanities, business, health and medical, social sciences, and science and technology.

Please look for the colorful explanatory zone signs posted throughout Burling to find just the right spot for you.

Grinnell College Libraries has access to Adam Matthew's "Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920 showcasing unique primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.