Kistle Science Library

The Kistle Science Library opened in June 2007. Basic facts and figures about the library are available below.

Subject Guides

... step-by-step guides for doing research in Agriculture, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science/Information Technology, Energy, Environment, Gender and Science, Geology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Physics, Plant Science, Psychology, Science Biography/History, and United States Federal Government Documents

 

Get a copy of the materials you have found above using --

Library Catalog

E-journal finder (journal, magazine, and newspaper articles)

Interlibrary Loan

Iowa State University Library Catalog

University of Iowa Library Catalog

... help in translating journal abbreviations

 

Evaluate

... the information you have found

 

Questions? Please contact the Science Librarian, Kevin Engel (engelk@grinnell.edu; 641.269.4234), or contact the Circulation Desk at the Kistle Science Library (641.269.4606).

About the Kistle Science Library --

Square footage: 10,553

Architect: Peter Landon, FAIA, Landon Bone Baker

Designer: Holabird & Root, Chicago

Number of seats: 78 including 2 mezzanine seating areas along 8th Ave.

Group study rooms: 4 -- in addition, most of the single study carrels will accommodate up to 4 readers.
Network access: Wireless throughout. Data jacks in individual carrels and group study rooms.

Current capacity: 100,000 volumes in fixed and moveable (compact) shelving

Potential with additional stack: 150,000 volumes

Number of volumes (June 2007): approx. 80,000

Helen Pierce Kistle came to Grinnell College as a student from Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated in 1938 with a BA in English. She studied the following year at Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in Boston, Massachusetts, and returned to her hometown to work as a secretary for a local real estate and insurance firm. Upon her marriage to Addison Kistle, a local attorney, Helen devoted her energies to community service in the Omaha/Council Bluffs communities. Among her many interests, she expressed a life-long passion for education and, in particular, literacy. Helen was active in her local library, serving as a board member and volunteer.