»Databases on Trial

Georgetown librarians are just as excited about new developments in your disciplines as you are, so when we discover a new database that we believe will make your work more productive, we’re eager to show you what it can do. The Trials of Databases link on the library’s homepage is a virtual “show and tell” opportunity: we get to show you research tools we think you’ll want, and you get to tell us whether you think they would be valuable in your research, before we invest thousands of dollars on the resources. The Trials of Databases link is on the right side of the library’s homepage, under the blue “Library News” bar.

Resources currently on trial include an empire studies database, four African-American and/or Black studies databases and a Japanese language reference source called JapanKnowledge. Empire Online offers over 70,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material from around the world relating to empire studies, viewed through multiple lenses (e.g., religion, race, class).Black Drama, Black Short Fiction, African American Song and Black Thought and Culture each provide a wide range of resources, including previously unpublished or otherwise inaccessible material. Search Black Drama for the scripts of 1200 plays, playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays. In Black Short Fiction, find African and African-Diaspora stories from more than 15 countries. African American Song offers 12,000 tracks of jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and other genres from the first half of the 20th century, including historical recordings from Document Records.Black Thought and Culture provides published nonfiction works of leading African Americans, including interviews, journal articles, letters, and other fugitive material (e.g., correspondence by Ida B. Wells; prefatory essays by Amiri Baraka; political leaflets by Huey Newton; interviews with Paul Robeson).

»Individual Study Carrels Available

Individual study carrels are now available to the Georgetown community for short term use. Georgetown graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and visiting researchers can reserve these carrels for up to three hours a day up to a week in advance. Unoccupied carrels may be used on a first come-first serve same day basis. For policies and procedures, please check out this link.