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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.

Six Grinnell College faculty members will soon be installed for chairs or professorships that were established to pay homage to Grinnellians while supporting student academic endeavors.

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

Grinnell ranked fifth in the 2021 college rankings by the Washington Monthly and 13th in the September release of the 2022 U.S. News and World Report rankings.

Recognizing the many challenges of the past year and looking toward fall with hope and optimism, a coalition of community businesses and organizations partnered on a new initiative — #GrinnTogether.

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.

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.

Land stewardship apprentices Athena Frasca ’23, Jacy Highbarger ’22, and Max Sorenson ’22 develop a land ethic through farming in the College Garden and managing campus prairies.

An outpouring of support from the former students of Luther Erickson, a professor emeritus of chemistry, and Jenny Erickson, retired Forum director, has…