Ribbon Cut

The Gelardin New Media Center, already active for some time on the first floor of Lauinger Library, officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 22, 2002. Below are comments from some of the participants:

"Literary historian Holbrook Jackson once wrote, 'Your library is your portrait.' Lauinger and our other university libraries are, in fact, a reflection of Georgetown's ideals, our values, our history and future, our commitments. The Gelardin New Media Center gives us important new tools and skills in the unending quest for knowledge that is the most worthy expression of academic excellence."

John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University

"From the richness of the Library's collections, including everything in the Gelardin Center, our staff and our collaborators on campus advance the intellect of our students and faculty and assist them in achieving great things. What the Center's future builds on is the past and present. For when we appreciate the past in the present, we can create for the future."

Artemis Kirk, University Librarian

"Georgetown University has played a very important part in my development; therefore, I have taken this opportunity to give something back to Georgetown University. In the creation of the new Center, I am supporting a project which brings together the use of an extensive range of new media technology. I am particularly pleased that these facilities are being made available to students and faculty across the entire University."

Jacques P. Gelardin, B'69