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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 now subscribes to Filmakers Library Online.  Visit the site to find streaming video of over 1,000 documentaries on race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

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!