Services for Business Faculty
Jennifer C. Boettcher (bO•cher), Business Librarian (202 687-7495)
- Access Services
- Research and Instructional Services
- Collection Development
- Other Library Services and Publications
- Related Services
Access Services
- In the Lauinger Library's Access Services
Department.
- Course reserves forms
- Get articles electronically,with known citation (coming soon)
- Checking out material from GEORGE, the online catalog
- Renew an item checked out from GU's GEORGE or WRLC's Aladin
- Paging a book to be pulled from the shelves and kept at the Circulation Desk for ten days or until you pick it up
- Interlibrary loan forms. Usually, current books requested through ILL will be purchased rather than requested from other libraries
- Recalling a Book that is checked out or located in off-campus storage (2-5 days)>
- Electronic book collections by title in GEORGE
- Checking out materials from the Gelardin New Media Center and putting videos and other media on Media Reserves
- Finding materials not found in this library
- Borrowing from the Washington Research Library Consortium, map to WRLC Libraries.
- Direct borrowing in person from other libraries
- Library of Congress Connection-Business Reading Room
Research & Instructional Services
- Faculty visits: I can make an appointment to meet in your office or in the library.
- I will review titles to confirm information for those writing textbooks or publications that refer to standard business sources. There have been a lot of changes in the publishing industry for example, Moody's is now Mergent's and Dow Jones News Retrieval is now Factiva.
- Reference Services from Research and Instruction Department
- Reference Desk is located in the Joseph Mark Lauinger Library (N and 37th St, N.W. Washington, DC). Locate the campus libraries: Library map. All Reference Librarians, have had business training, are on duty 9:00am-7:00pm M-Th, 9:00am-5:00pm Fr, 10:00am-6:00pm Sat, and 11:00am-9:00pm Sun. For holiday and vacation hours review the hours website. All reference librarians can help you define your search strategy as well as locate information about companies, industries, markets, or any business topic
- Find an answer from databases in the following topics: company, industry, finance, management, international business, marketing, economics, accounting & taxation, operations & information management, nonprofit organizations and others. Follow the directions for off campus access to databases if you are at home
- Get articles electronically, with known citation (coming soon)
- 24/7 assistance is also available, more about Live Help
- Get regular, automatic updates on a topic from selected databases using Article alerts
- Keep track of your references by using RefWorks
- Check who is citing your work by using Web of Knowledge
- Grants and Scholarships resources guide
- Resources outside Lauinger Library
- Georgetown makes it easy to go to the Library of Congress and use their business databases
- Contact John Carpenter about Datastream, WRDS, Thomson, and other sources (MSB only)
- Georgetown University's Social Sciences Data Archive
- Use the Table of Contents service Social Science Research Network. (Access only for the McDonough School of Business and Economics Department eligible)
- Instructional Services from Research and Instruction Department
- Course-related instruction form
- Enterprise Academy: Free workshops are available for self-defined topics, however a minimum of four people must attend. To schedule a workshop contact Jennifer Boettcher
- To edit and produce multimedia projects start with the Gelardin New Media Center Resources
- What is plagiarism and how to cite resources
- Turnitin, university-sponsored anti-plagiarism service
- Make citation formatting easier with RefWorks
- Help with Blackboard:
- Link to the Business Intelligence Center
- Use durable links for your readings
- Use Article alerts for your discussions
- Encourage students to use RefWorks to keep track of references and cite article, book, and web resources with proper format
- Connect with Research Guides
- Connect with "Doing Research on the Internet"
- Connect with selected Business databases
- Link to online forms like ask a Librarian or schedule a consultation
- Link to Live Chat
- The Business Librarian can also suggest relevant web sites or be included in online discussions
Collection Development
- Purchase Request (To check status of your order, contact Jennifer Boettcher, 202 687-7495)
- GEORGE, the Catalog
- If Lauinger Library does not own a book, journal, or video, you can request the Library to get it for free from another library or in some cases you can go to a local library and check it out yourself. See Interlibrary Loan and Direct Borrowing above
- Videos:
- All videos that Lauinger Library owns are listed in GEORGE, our catalog. To search by subject, start with a keyword search. You can limit your search to items in the "LAU Gelardin Media Center" (limiting from a large number of results will take a little time.) Contact the library (202 687-7452) if you need assistance
- Videos can be viewed in the library or checked out by faculty for 1 week (depending on availability)
- To show a video in a class, contact the Classroom Educational Technology Services (CETS) at 202 687-7491 or fill out the required form
- Media items in the WRLC Catalog are available through Media Share
- Periodicals:
- When thinking of adding new journals please take into consideration: are they indexed, using Ulrichs? already available in a full-text source? Price?
- Purchase requests for periodicals
- Report an Error Found in GEORGE form
- If you want to donate books or magazines, you can drop them off at the Reference Desk or call Greg at 202 687-1887 to pick up items from your office
- Other ways to help build the collection by making a donation or setting up a special fund
Other Library Services & Publications
- News from the Main Campus Libraries
- Hours and about the Library
- Keeping up on scholarly communication
- Contributing to the University Archives
- Laptops Usage and Wireless Networking in the Library
- Gelardin New Media Center Services
- Photocopying and Printing
- Services for Patrons with Disabilities
- Services for Faculty
- Lauinger Library on Facebook
- Personal and Public Space in the Library
- Carrel application form
- Faculty Carrel Policy and Guidelines
- Group study rooms and quiet areas
- Request for Millennium Newsroom Programming
- Free reservation of the Murray Room, for University-sponsored events
- Free food and drink to all professors who hold their office hours in the Midnight Mug (second floor of the library)
Related Services
- Faculty Guidebook for Technology, Teaching, and Research from CNDLES
- Most computer questions can be answered by the MSB Technology Center(MSB Only)
- Free food and drink to all professors who hold their office hours in the Midnight Mug (second floor of the library)
- Other computer questions should be directed to University Information Services
- Georgetown Undergraduate Research Opportunities (GUROP) money for research assistants
- Classroom Educational Technology Services (A.V. Department), includes teleconferencing facilities
- Remote access to personal or shared drives on GUShare
- Faculty profiles on explore.georgetown.edu
- Faculty services from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Faculty services from the Registrar's Office
- Office of the Provost
- University Faculty Senate
- G.U. Faculty home page
