»Update Your Bookmarks!

The URL for GEORGE, the online catalog has moved. Please point your bookmarks to http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/.

»Your Feedback is Needed

The Library subscribes to 258 Elsevier titles through ScienceDirect. Thanks to a new license arrangement we will have perpetual online access. Therefore, we believe there is no longer a need to continue to subscribe to print versions of these journals. Please visit our feedback page and use the form to let us know by Friday, September 8, 2006 if there are some titles where the print is necessary.

»Have You Joined the Conversation?

All first year and transfer students must complete the Scholarly Research & Academic Integrity Tutorial by October 6, 2006. Go to Student Access+ and choose the tutorial. The tutorial is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff from Lauinger Library, the Honor Council, the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), the Registrar’s Office, University Information Services, the Writing Center, and each of the undergraduate schools. Faculty may access the tutorial in Faculty Access+. Visitors may review the tutorial in Guest Mode.

»News from Qatar

The SFS-Q Library welcomed the class of 2010 during Orientation Week, August 6-10. 35 freshman students, representing 12 nationalities, toured the Library and attended an orientation session. Classes started on August 13th in order to end the semester on November 30th--just prior to the beginning of the Asian Games, which are being hosted by Doha and which will without doubt disrupt traffic patterns throughout the city. The Library has reached and exceeded its targeted goal of 15,000 volumes by the end of its first year of operation.

»For Faculty: Advancing Student Research

As you plan your fall semester courses, remember that the librarians of the Lauinger and Blommer Science Libraries can be your partners in introducing research methods and resources to your students. Here's how:

Schedule a library research instruction session with a librarian.

• Librarians introduce relevant periodical indexes, specialized databases, reference books, and Web sites and strategies for using them
• Students have hands-on practice with research materials using the computers in Dubin Classroom, first floor of Lauinger
• Sessions are tailored to class assignments
• Sessions can focus on particular research materials, e.g., primary sources, statistics, government documents
• Request a session online.

Link to Library Guides to Research by Subject, which point students in the direction of major resources in 60 topic areas. These can be linked from a course Web site or Blackboard site. We can even create a guide just for your course.

For more information about library research instruction, contact Sandy Hussey at 687-8689 or visit the Library Research Instruction page.