Library Celebrates Campaign Kickoff

Dinner in the Pierce Reading Room for more than 100 Library Advisory Council members, other contributors, and library staff marked the beginning of the public phase of Georgetown's Third Century Campaign on October 9th. Susan K. Martin, University Librarian, announced that the library has already received more than $11 million towards a revised goal of $30 million for the campaign.

A Friday seminar on the Berlin airlift, sponsored jointly by the library and the Center for German and European Studies, was very well attended, and the library sponsored on Saturday a series of technology showcases. The big hit of the weekend, however, was the "big" sale of out-of-scope books on Saturday afternoon on Healy lawn. Former head librarian Joe Jeffs and former College dean Royden Davis, S.J., were among those who were delighted to help the library by finding a thousand or so volumes new homes.