It went from 300 possibilities to five.

Students have the opportunity to rate and ultimately select the name of Hale Library's new café.

Students can take a survey at the K-State Library Web site where they rate the five names on a scale of one to five. The survey will be open to students until 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The name that receives the best rating wins, and will be announced Sept. 26.

The selection committee decided the five final names on Monday - The Bookend Café, Sunflower Café, The Bookdrop Café, Common Grounds and Hale Library Café.

While people might have called the café "Hale Library Café," it is not the official name, said Roberta Johnson, director of financial services and facilities at Hale.

The café, which opened Aug. 20, had a selection committee made up of three staff members from the K?State Student Union and three staff members from Hale Library who collected suggested names for the café.

About 300 names were submitted to the committee. Tara Coleman, assistant president of Hale, said people could submit as many names as they wanted. While anyone could submit suggestions, only K?State students were eligible for prizes.

"Some people submitted 20 names, and some people submitted one name," Coleman said.

The names submitted had to contain a few details to be selected, said Tom Mahoney, K-State Student Union marketing and sales manager and member of the selection committee.

"The name needed to convey its location and that it is a café," Mahoney said.

The first-place prize will be an iPod nano. The second-place prize will be a $50 Union gift certificate, and the third-place prize will be a $25 Union gift certificate.

Students can vote for their favorite café name by going to www.lib.ksu.edu.