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Lauinger Library
Blommer Science Library


#56, February 9, 2005


Events

»Library Associates Events

February 18
The Book as Prize
Panel: Man Booker International Judges
ICC Auditorium, 6:00 p.m.
Georgetown University

The campus community is welcome at this event. More information available here. RSVP required.

The judges will announce their short list of contenders for this new literary prize at a press conference at 10 a.m. on February 18 in the Pierce Reading Room of Lauinger Library. The press conference will be videotaped and made available on the campus cable television system and via webcast later in the day.

March 16
The Magical Mystery of the Sea
Ruth Petzold, underwater photographer
South Florida

April 16
Augustine: A Conversation with the Provost
John Carroll Awards Weekend
Chicago, IL

More information on these and additional 2004-2005 Library Associates events will be updated here.

»Speaker Series on February 23

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The 12th Annual Government Documents and Microforms Department's Spring Speaker Series presents Nathan Hultman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs, speaking on "Climate Change in Fact and Fiction: Images of science, scientists and society" on Wednesday, February 23, at 7 p.m. in the Murray Room, Lauinger Library. The campus community is welcome; RSVP required.

 


 

News and Announcements

»Ongoing Book Sale in Lauinger

Books are for sale on the bookshelf between the circulation desk and the entrance to the Pierce Reading Room in Lauinger Library. Please stop by and browse.

»Sign up for the Spring 2005 multimedia workshops offered by the Gelardin New Media Center here.

 


Exhibits

»In the Fairchild Gallery, Fifth Floor Lauinger. John W. Winkler's Drawings for the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

»In the Gunlocke Room, Fifth Floor Lauinger: Monastic Bindings of Three Centuries.

»In the Leon Robbin Gallery, Fifth Floor Lauinger: Two Black Composers: R. Nathaniel Dett & J. Rosamond Johnson.

»In the Stephen Richard Kerbs Exhibit Area, Third Floor Lauinger: Georgetown's Renaissance Man: Francis Leslie Fadner, S.J.

»In the Government Documents Display Case, First Floor Lauinger: Climate Change.

»In the Napolitano Exhibit Space, New Media Center, First Floor Lauinger: Student Work in Portrait & Figure Painting.

Monastic binding

Binding, with detail inset. One of the monastic bindings on display in the Gunlocke Room.

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