2009 Favorite Films Festival Survey is Underway

Members of the college community are invited to vote for the films to be shown at the third annual Grinnell College Favorite Films Festival.

The three categories this year are:

Film Noir
Foreign Film
Animated Film

The only limit is that the films selected must be part of the Grinnell College Libraries' collections.

The survey will be open for voting on PioneerWeb from Sunday, November 2th through Sunday, November 16th. The winning films will be announced shortly afterwards and will be shown on campus Friday, January 23, through Sunday, January 25, 2009.

BTW, the films the campus community selected last year’s festival were:

Action/Adventure - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Childhood Favorite - The Lion King
Science Fiction - Star Wars: A New Hope

The Favorite Films Festival is co-sponsored by the Grinnell College Libraries and the Student Government Association Films Committee. For more information, contact Randye Jones at jonesran@grinnell.edu or the Films Committee at films@grinnell.edu.

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Meet the 2008/2009 Library SEPC

Solomon A Akesseh '11 (Library)
Peter Henry '09 (SGA)
Chris Johnston '09 (Senator)
Kim Knudsen '10 (Library)
Sam Stragand '10 (Senator)
Andrew Walsh '09 (Library)
Hannah Yourd '09 (Library)

The Library SEPC (Student Educational Policy Committee) is a student/library liaison group that provides the Libraries with student input on quality of library services, performance and hiring of librarians, and other important issues. SEPC works with a group of librarians and library staff as part of a Student Outreach Committee that provides advice and suggestions to the Libraries regarding services, collections, events, facilities, library promotion, and other issues. The SEPC also helps organize the Libraries' finals-week study breaks, surveys students and summarizes their opinions regarding the professional performance of librarians during contract reviews, and participates in interviews of candidates for librarian positions.

The Library SEPC includes:

• 4 library student employees, elected at the beginning of the fall semester by all the current library student employees;

• 1 student appointed early in the fall term by SGA;

• 2 students elected early in the fall term by the representatives of the residential clusters (Joint Board) (each representing a different cluster).