This is it - your last chance to cast your vote for the new Eckles Flix. Voting absolutely, positively ends at 3pm on Monday, March 3rd so make sure to get your ballot in before it is too late!

Are you a last minute kinda voter? You’ve got three ways to vote:
1) Get your behind over to Eckles and pick up a paper ballot
2) Print out this Flix Ballot and return it to the Eckles Circulation Desk
3) Take a look at the Flix Ballot and then email your ten choices to us at eckles@gwu.edu.

As a sneak preview, here are the top picks as of 1pm on Friday:

Juno (41 votes)
Superbad (25 votes)
Sweeney Todd (22 votes)
American Gangster (19 votes)
Atonement (19 votes)
The Kite Runner (17 votes)
No Country for Old Men (17 votes)
Ocean’s Trilogy (17 votes)
Knocked Up (16 votes)
Bourne Identity, The (16 votes)
300 (14 votes)
Hairspray (2007) (14 votes)
Charlie Wilson’s War (13 votes)
Shawshank Redemption (13 votes)
I Am Legend (13 votes)
Bourne Supremacy, The (12 votes)
Bourne Ultimatum, The (12 votes)
American Beauty (11 votes)
Ratatouille (11 votes)
Shrek Trilogy (11 votes)
Lust, Caution (10 votes)
Michael Clayton (10 votes)
Pulp Fiction (10 votes)
Se7en (10 votes)
There Will Be Blood (10 votes)

It has been a busy weekend of voting for our New Eckles Flix! Below are some early returns (guaranteed to be more accurate than exit polling or Voter News Service).

Haven’t voted yet? You’ve got three ways to vote:
1) Get your behind over to Eckles and pick up a paper ballot
2) Print out this Flix Ballot and return it to the Eckles Circulation Desk
3) Take a look at the Flix Ballot and then email your ten choices to us at eckles@gwu.edu.

Without further ado, here are your leaders as of February 25th:
Juno (30 votes)
Superbad (21 votes)
Atonement (14 votes)
The Kite Runner (14 votes)
Sweeney Todd (14 votes)
American Gangster (12 votes)
Shawshank Redemption (12 votes)
Ocean’s Trilogy (12 votes)
Knocked Up (11 votes)
No Country for Old Men (10 votes)
Shrek Trilogy (10 votes)
Hairspray (2007) (10 votes)
Charlie Wilson’s War (9 votes)
Schindler’s List (9 votes)
Ratatouille (9 votes)
Bourne Identity, The (9 votes)
American Beauty (8 votes)
Pulp Fiction (8 votes)
Se7en (8 votes)
Old School (8 votes)
300 (8 votes)
Adventures of Indiana Jones Trilogy (8 votes)
Across the Universe (8 votes)
Prestige, The (7 votes)
Bourne Supremacy, The (7 votes)
Bourne Ultimatum, The (7 votes)
I Am Legend (7 votes)
Apocalypse Now (7 votes)
Some Like It Hot (7 votes)

Its that time again! A happy, happy, HAPPY time of year for all…time to buy NEW ECKLES FLIX!

In case you don’t know, Eckles Flix is a collection of fun and interesting DVDs available for check out by Mount Vernon residents. Flix are free (as long as you return them on time) and completely student chosen! You can check out our current collection here.

There are three ways to vote:
1) Get your behind over to Eckles and pick up a paper ballot (so retro…)
2) Print out this Flix Ballot and return it to the Eckles Circulation Desk (not retro, but still quaint)
3) Take a look at the Flix Ballot and then email your ten choices to us at eckles@gwu.edu. (So hot. So now.)

We will tabulate the votes (no hanging chads, I promise) and announce the winners on this site on March 3rd. We’ll buy as many movies as we can with our allotted budget (last year it was about 50) and you should be able to kick back with some new movies after Spring Break.

Don’t let those nerds down the hall choose your new Flix…Vote Now!!

In case you missed it in all the excitement of Valentine’s Day, this is National Condom Week!

Along with a spiffy display and free condoms (while they last), Eckles also offers you an interesting display of books on Love, Sex and Valentine’s Day. Feel free to giggle if you must, but come by and check it out.

You may not realize it, but Eckles Library loves you! And we’re giving away special bookmarks all day today to show it. Come by Eckles today and pick up some candy, a bookmark and a big helping of Eckles love.

For those cynics among us whose affection can’t be bought with sweets and trinkets, here is our Valentine’s Day list of the top 20 ways Eckles shows its love for YOU:

1. AIM/Yahoo/GTalk: EcklesInfo
2. Quarter coffee, cappuccino & hot chocolate
3. Open until 3am Sunday through Thursday nights
4. Friendly & helpful staff
5. Eckles Flix
6. The Eckles Prize for Excellence in Freshman Research
7. Make your own Mini-Pizza nights
8. Home to over 64,000 books with access to millions more through the Washington Research Library Consortium
9. Free Coffee during midterms and finals
10. Open 24-hours for Finals and Reading Days
11. Lots of study rooms
12. Three computer labs, including one open 24-hours
13. Board at Eckles
14. Comfortable furniture
15. Wireless internet available throughout the library and campus
16. Awesome student lounge filled with the comforting scent of coffee
17. Leisure reading collection
18. Make your own PB&J, Cereal Night, fortune cookies, candy…there always seems to be food at Eckles
19. Staff won’t wake you up from your nap unless you ask.
20. Cheesy Valentine’s Day blog posts!

Greetings Year of the Rat!

It is Lunar New Year and Eckles is decked out in style to remind you: Don’t Leave Your Grades to Fortune!

Our fabulous Fortune cookies are going fast. Come by today for a cookie and a reminder of all the great academic services available to you at Eckles Library.

You can improve your foreign language skills AND eat free cookies! How great is that?

It is the Foreign Language Coffee Hour and it is only at Eckles Library. Once a month you can kick back on our comfortable 1st floor couches, drink some coffee and converse in a foreign language with a GW professor and other students. All levels of proficiency are welcome! It’s stress free and the best way to solidify what you are learning in class.

When? Today from 2:00-3:00pm (Hebrew from 2:30-3:30pm)
Where? Eckles 1st Floor
Why? So you can talk to that cute boy you meet while studying abroad.

            
Interior Design Studio in the 1970s                  Interior Design Resource Room 2008

You may have noticed an extra bit of hubub going on in Eckles for the past few days.  Perhaps you’ve noticed the disappearance of the student projects lining the 1st floor walls or seen the flurry of activity in the auditorium?

The Interior Design Department, located on the Mount Vernon Campus is busily preparing for a very big weekend.  It is time for them to renew their accrediation from CIDA.  You may not know it, but this is a pretty big deal.  In fact, our Interior Design program is the ONLY accredited program in DC and one of only 2 within 100 miles.  This accrediation process is a massive endeavor and they have been preparing for it for years!

We thought this would be a good time to reflect a little on what Interior Design has meant to this campus, so we went to the archives and found lots of interesting stuff.  You can check out the history of this program through photographs, newspaper clippings and other materials in an exhibit on our gallery wall.