Newsletter

Watch a video of the Spring 2012 Scholarly Communication Symposium, Planning and Promoting the Creation of Scientific Knowledge: Three Perspectives.

Watch a video of the Ellen Catherine Gstalder Memorial Lecture, A Nation of Immigrants, with Professor Susan Martin.

The Library’s Business Reference Librarian, Jennifer Boettcher, has been elected American Library Association (ALA) Councilor to represent the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) from 2012-2015. RUSA, a component part of the American Library Association, is responsible for stimulating and supporting excellence in the delivery of general library services and materials, and the provision of reference and information services, collection development, readers’ advisory, and resource sharing for all ages, in every type of library.

As you plan your fall courses, contact your subject librarian to work with you, help scaffold learning in your course, and foster student inquiry and research.  We can

• Teach course-specific resources and research strategies you want your students to use, including primary sources, data sets and statistics, non-English language material, images/multimedia, and citation management software (e.g., RefWorks).
• Work with students individually in research consultation appointments.  Students get one-on-one assistance when they need it.
• Collaborate with you to craft research assignments to develop student research skills, beginning through advanced levels.

We can come to your class, create a specific course guide, be present in Blackboard, and make tutorials geared to your course needs.  By using us, you can be sure that all students have the same information, understand their responsibilities, and know when to ask for help.  Class sessions also offer you the opportunity to see students working through their initial research challenges and to answer questions.

You can link to our Course Guides, Subject Guides, and Tutorials in your Blackboard or course websites.

Contact Sandy Hussey, Library Research Instruction Coordinator, for more information.

The University Art Collection recently acquired a classical portrait drawing of Professor John Morrell, Chair of Georgetown's Department of Art and Art History.   Made in 1976, the finely delineated ink portrait was drawn by Morrell's graduate teacher, Arthur Hall Smith, and exhibited that year at the Franz Bader Gallery in Washington, D.C.  The drawing sold at the opening to local collectors Louis and Patricia Wener.  Portions of their estate were sold at Weschler's auction house where the Morrell portrait was purchased by art curator LuLen Walker, on a tip from studio art instructor Scip Barnhart.

Thanks to SFS-Q in Doha, all Georgetown faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students now have access to lynda.com, a one-stop shop for video tutorials on Excel, Blackboard, iMovie, Gmail, Photoshop, PowerPoint, and hundreds more topics. 

Start exploring these tutorials from this link, or find the link on the Gelardin New Media Center’s homepage.

Special Collections Research Center student intern Marvin J. Aguilar (C'12) has received a 2012 Misty Dailey Award for Excellence in the Arts.  His paper, The Boyer Family, Mother-Daughter Innovative Printmakers, was awarded the Honorable Mention for a research paper in art history.  His advisor for the paper was Keyser Family Professor of Art History Elizabeth Prelinger.  The current exhibition on the Boyers in Lauinger Library’s Fairchild Gallery is curated by Aguilar. He has been a student intern in the Special Collections Research Center, working with the University Art Curator, since 2009.

The conservation and digitization of the Philodemic Society's two earliest "amanuensis books" has been made possible through the generosity of an anonymous Georgetown alumnus. The earliest proceedings of the society are now readily accessible online in The Philodemic Society Archives on DigitalGeorgetown.

The Library welcomes our new Public Policy and Data Librarian, Mara Rojeski, who arrives at Georgetown on June 1. Mara’s primary responsibilities will be to the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and the Department of Economics, but she will also coordinate government information and social science data. Mara comes to Georgetown from Dickinson College, where she served for three years as the social sciences liaison librarian to the political science, policy studies, international studies, anthropology, sociology, and security studies departments.  She received her B.A. in German and International Affairs from the University of Michigan and her M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.  While at the University of Illinois, she worked as a graduate assistant in their Education and Social Science Library.  In 2011, Mara received a Coutts Nijhoff Grant to conduct research in German libraries and archives on Weimar and World War II era propaganda.  Mara really enjoys working with both students and scholars on their research projects and is looking forward to coming to Georgetown!