The voting is finished, the votes have been tabulated and I have ordered the new Eckles Flix! As promised, below is a list of the DVDs I ordered and which will soon be added to the collection.

PLEASE NOTE: It will take 2-3 week to get the DVDs in and get them ready for circulation. Also, several of these are pre-orders (meaning the DVDs have not been released yet) so they won’t be available for a bit longer.

24 (Seasons 1-5)
The 40 Year Old Virgin
An Inconvenient Truth
Apocalypto
Babel
Blood Diamond
Borat
Brokeback Mountain
Casablanca
Casino Royale (2006)
Children of Men
The Constant Gardener
The DaVinci Code
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Finding Neverland
The Godfather
Godfather, Part II
Godfather, Part III
Gone With the Wind
Grease
Grey’s Anatomy (Season 1)
Grey’s Anatomy (Season 2)
Happy Feet
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
The Holiday
Hotel Rwanda
The Illusionist
The Incredibles
The Last King of Scotland
The Little Mermaid
Little Miss Sunshine
Lord of War
Lost (Season 1)
Lost (Season 2)
Love Actually
Marie Antionette
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Night at the Museum
The Notebook
Notes on a Scandal
Pan’s Labrynth
Pleasantville
The Pursuit of Happyness
Rent
Sideways
The Sound of Music
Stranger than Fiction
Syriana
Talladega Nights – The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Thank You for Smoking
V for Vendetta
Volver
Walk the Line

Don’t forget to vote for the new Eckles Flix! Voting ends Friday, March 30th. That is only 2 days away so HURRY to the Eckles Circulation Desk to get your ballot today!

Here are the current films that have been chosen on at least 10% of ballots:

Little Miss Sunshine
Borat
Thank You for Smoking
Hotel Rwanda
Casino Royale (2006)
Pan’s Labrynth
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Grey’s Anatomy (Season 2)
An Inconvenient Truth
Casablanca
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Grey’s Anatomy (Season 1)
Talladega Nights – The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Babel
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
V for Vendetta
Walk the Line
The Illusionist
The Incredibles
The Last King of Scotland
The Little Mermaid
The Pursuit of Happyness
Blood Diamond
Brokeback Mountain
The Godfather
Happy Feet
Rent

Here at Eckles we work very hard to provide you with a clean, comfortable place to study. When you ask for it (like cheap coffee, a student lounge, expanded hours, etc.) we try our hardest to make it happen.

Not to sound like an after-school special or anything, but it just takes a few people to ruin that for everyone else. The picture to the right is of the student lounge this morning. Puzzle pieces were thrown around the room and piles of books were on the floor.

We have a finite amount of time and money at out disposal. The time we spend cleaning up this mess is time we don’t spend helping another student. The money we spend replacing damaged books is money we don’t spend on new Eckles Flix or snacks at finals. Think about what you’d rather have when you see someone damaging library property.

Enough said. End of lecture.

What’s up with WRLC??

Libraries are infamous harborers of acronyms. Librarians like to make them up and then toss them around at our important meetings; this however, does you little good. WRLC is one term you may see when searching the ALADIN catalog or hear when speaking to library types.

WRLC stands for Washington Research Library Consortium. The consortium is made up of eight schools: GW, American University, Catholic University, George Mason University, Georgetown University, Marymount University, and University of the District of Columbia. What does that mean to you? Well, it means you can borrow the millions of books located at any of these area universities. You can request items using the Consortium Loan Service (CLS - see previous post). You can also walk into each of the libraries and borrow the item directly using your Gworld card.

Find out more about using CLS here: http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/service/circulation/cls/

Your friendly librarian,
Sarah

This Friday, March 30th, the 2007 Women’s Leadership Conference will take place on the Mount Vernon Campus. The conference celebrates women who have taken leadership roles. We thought that was a pretty good thing to celebrate, so we put up a book display highlighting a few of the women leaders throughout history who have inspired us.

Here are just a few of the books you might find interesting:

African American Women in Congress: Forming and Transforming History
by Laverne McCain Gill

Shirley Chisholm rocks my world. In 1968 she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. Four years later she became the first African American woman to run for president, running with the slogan, “Unbossed and Unbought.” This book chronicles her life and and the lives of 14 other trailblazing women who have served in the House and Senate.

We Were Making History: Women and the Telangana Uprising
by Stree Shakti Sanghatana

From the back: The Telangana struggle (1948-51) against the feudal overlords in the princely state of Hyderabad, and later against the Indian army itself, is now legendary. These interviews tell of women who left behind a life of the household to learn a life of activism: hiding from the police, fighting and facing the death of comrades. The excitement of working in a resistance movement is clear, but also the bitterness of being told to go back to the kitchen once the struggle ended.

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
by Linda Lear

From the back: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did more than any single publication or event to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning. Linda Lear gives a compelling portrait of this heroic woman, illuminating the origin of her connection with nature and of her determination to save what she loved.

Don’t forget to cast your vote for the new Eckles Flix! You can pick up your official ballot at the Eckles Circulation Desk. Voting ends March 30th (this Friday) so don’t delay!

Unofficial Voting Results
We have a NEW Hands Down Favorite today:
Casino Royale

Little Miss Sunshine is now tied with Borat for second place.

As Confusing as a Palm Beach Ballot? I think not.

At least one person has had a small problem completing the Official Eckles Flix Ballot properly. Where the ballot says to circle 10 choices, they chose 22. Just so everything stays above-board, I wanted to let you know how this situation was handled.

Since the ballots are anonymous, I can’t just contact the voter and ask them to choose ten. Therefore, I am picking the ten choices I like best out of their 22 and counting those. If you can think of a better and/or more fair way to handle this situation I would be happy discuss it. The best bet, however, is only to vote for 10.

It seems like everyone is excited about the new Eckles Flix! In only two days of voting, we have received many, many ballots. Here is a brief update on the voting so far:

Hands Down Favorite:
Little Miss Sunshine

*So popular that on a ballot with 188 choices, it has still managed to be selected by 34% of voters.

Next Top 20:
Borat
Brokeback Mountain
Casino Royale
The Devil Wears Prada
The Last King of Scotland
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Babel
Deja Vu
Hotel Rwanda
Talladega Nights
Thank You for Smoking
Sex and the City (Season 6)
The Departed
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Pan’s Labrynth
Syriana
V for Vendetta
Walk the Line
X-Men - The Last Stand
Sex and the City (Season 5)

Write-In Votes:
Airplane
Blow
Desperate Housewives (Season 2)
Sex and the City (Season 4)
Sex and the City (Season 5)
Sex and the City (Season 6)
So I Married an Axe Murderer

We’re adding new flix to the Eckles Flix collection and we need your help!

Come to the Eckles Circulation Desk and pick up a ballot to vote for the DVDs you think we should buy for the collection. You get ten choices PLUS you can write in anything you think we missed.

We will tabulate all the votes and choose approximately 50 DVDs to purchase by the end of the semester. Winners will be announced right here!

Voting ends March 30th, so hurry in and cast your ballot!

Every once in a while something happens that gets us library nerds all a-twitter. We get NEW BOOKS. And how we love them…all shiny, spines unbroken, free from coffee stains and those faint pencil marks that you think we don’t notice but we do.

In the last month, we’ve been bursting with happiness over the arrival of 100+ beautiful new books on a wide array of subjects. Below are a few I thought you’d find especially interesting:

Mechademia 1: Emerging worlds of Anime and Manga
Frenchy Lunning, Editor

From the back: “Mechademia 1 is a juicy compendium that casts a wide net over the worlds on manga and anime. It is a beautiful, lively book with something for the otaku in all of us.”

I don’t know what that means, but it seems pretty good.

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda (A Spy’s Story)
Omar Nasiri

From the back: “A chillingly detailed portrait of life inside the Afghan training camps. Omar Nasiri’s memoir offers a unique insider’s perspective on the crucial years during which a loosely connected group of regional Islamist movements coalesced into Al Qaeda’s global jihad.”

The Cutting Edge of Wallpaper
Cigalle Hanaor, Editor

Stunningly beautiful photographs of the most amazing, crazy, hip, funky and downright trippy wallpaper you have ever seen. Also, I think there are words. The Eckles staff has spent some serious time flipping through this book.

Happy first day of Spring!

Let us all remember what Emily Dickinson has to say:

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene—
This whole experiment of green,
As if it were his own!

Part Five: The Single Hound
from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson