Student Services

• Reference and Educational Services
• Access Services
• Collection Development
• Other Library Services
• Publications and About the Library

Reference & Educational Services

15 Steps to Good Research

Needs Something Now

• 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
• From a class website
• How to get free articles from Off Campus and On Campus

Wants help from a Librarian

• Live Online Reference Help, service 24/7 from GU and other librarians
• More help
• 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.
• Call Jennifer C. Boettcher (bO•cher), Business Librarian (202 687-7495)
• Office hours: Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons in the TechCenter in the Hariri Building or by appointment
• 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
• Georgetown has make it easy to go to the Library of Congress and use their business databases

Become a Stronger Leader

• Get regular, automatic updates on a topic from selected databases using Article alerts
• Learn more about using the library and doing research with Library Research Instruction Programs
• Use RefWorks, a library-sponsored software to avoid plagiarism and learn how to cite resources

Access Services

• In the Lauinger Library's Access Services Department.
  • >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 keep at the Circulations Desk for ten days or until you pick it up (one day service)
  • Retrieving Course reserves
  • Interlibrary loan
  • Recalling a Book that is checked out or located in off-campus storage (2-5 days)>
  • Graduate Borrowing
  • Undergraduate Borrowing
• Checking out multimedia and equipment from the Gelardin New Media Center

Finding materials not in this library

• Borrowing from the Washington Research Library Consortium, map to WRLC Libraries.
• Other library catalogs. Use the Aladin catalog for local academic collections.

Public Space in the library

• Short-term carrel use and request
• Group study rooms and quiet areas
• Midnight Mug is open until 2:00 am most nights (second floor of the library)
• Laptop and Wireless policy and services
• Late night study area
• Lockers, free for the semester
• Request for Millennium Newsroom Programming
• Free reservation of the Murray Room, for University-sponsored events
• Services for Patrons with Disabilities

Collection Development

• Electronic business book collection in GEORGE
• GEORGE the Catalog.GEORGE provides information about our current print, electronic, media, and sound collections in Lauinger, Blommer, Dalhgren, Woodstock, BioEthics, and SFS Qatar Libraries.
• Purchase Request
• New book list
• Other ways to help by making a donation or setting up a special fund.
• 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/DVDs:
  • 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 hits 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 students for overnight (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
  • You can Interlibrary Loan a video. ILL may take up to 5 weeks to arrive.

Other Library Services

• Gelardin New Media Center
• Photocopying and Printing
• Classroom Educational Technology Services
• Services for Patrons with Disabilities
• "How to Do Statistical Research" from American University and "Data Presentation: A Guide to Good Graphics and Tables" from Washington Statistical Soc.
• Ranking of business schools (9/09)
• The library does not offer access to a typewriter. (There is a typewriter in the MSB Technology Center. The only typewriter publicly available to all students can be found at MBNA Career Center.)

Publications & Other Library Information

• Current News from the Main Campus Libraries
• Student positions are posted online at JobXpress and on the bulletin boards in the main entrance lobby of Lauinger Library. For information about application procedures please contact the Library Administration office at 202-687-7425.)
• For Seniors and Second Year MBAs: As recent graduates, you are eligible for a free one-year membership to the Library Associates. Information is in your graduation package. You have up to three months after graduation to take advantage of this great benefit that will give you check out privileges once you graduate and networking opportunities across the world. (The letter)
• Find out more about the Library Associates.
• Most computer questions can be answered by the MSB Technology Center
• Other computer questions should be directed to University Information Services
• Georgetown University's student page
• About the Library