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Kistle Science Library (Kistle map)
Research Guides
Agriculture
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science/Information Technology
Energy
Environment
Gender and Science
Geology
Medicine
Neuroscience
Physics
Plant Science
Psychology
Science Biography/History
United States Federal Government Documents
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.
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