Study Carrels

Only Main Campus teaching faculty may obtain a Lauinger Library faculty carrel space. Medical and Law faculty, as well as visiting researchers and scholars, are ineligible. Library carrel privileges are nontransferable. Teaching and research assistants, visiting researchers, students, colleagues, friends or family members should not use your carrel.

Due to high demand and space limitations, faculty carrels may be shared by up to three faculty members. There are three time slots for each carrel: weekday mornings, weekday afternoons and weekday evenings/weekends. You are welcome to use the carrel during another time slot provided that you leave the carrel should the assigned partner wish to use it.

Library carrels are not soundproof. Any conversation in your carrel can be heard in surrounding carrels.

Please do not use your carrel as an office. Coffee pots, hot plates, electric heaters and other equipment of this nature are prohibited.

You may keep library materials in your carrel if they are properly checked out. Any noncirculating library materials (periodicals, reference materials, newspapers, etc.) or library materials that have not been checked out, will be removed if found in your library carrel.

The library is not responsible for the loss of personal materials or library materials charged out to you. For the safety of your materials and personal possessions, the carrel door should be locked at all times.

Only Main Campus students, visiting researchers, staff, and faculty members can reserve a study carrel in advance. You may sign up for three hours per day. There are no same-day reservations, and no reservations of more than a week in advance.

Unoccupied carrels are available to all members of the Georgetown community on a first-come, first-served basis.

Only one person is allowed in the carrel at a time.

Library carrels are not soundproof. Any conversation in your carrel can be heard in surrounding carrels. Please do not use your carrel as an office.

The carrel doors are to remain unlocked. Do not leave laptops or other materials unattended in the carrel. The library is not responsible for the loss of personal belongings or for the loss of library materials checked out to you.

The doors will be locked by Access Services Department staff half an hour before the Circulation Desk closes. Items left in the carrel will be removed to the Lauinger Lost and Found. Unclaimed items will be sent to the Department of Public Safety (DPS) every Wednesday.

Coffee pots, hot plates, electric heaters and other equipment of this nature are prohibited.

Carrels are nontransferable and available only to full-time, Main Campus graduate students. To qualify, a graduate student must be registered for a minimum of nine credit hours of doctoral work or thesis research. Student status will be verified with the Registrar's Office before a carrel is assigned. Students on a leave of absence, continuous registration or considered by the Graduate School to be part-time are not eligible. Medical and Law graduate students are ineligible for carrel assignments at Lauinger Library.

Two graduate students are assigned to each carrel. Each graduate student may use half of the bookshelf and half of the bulletin board space. Items should not be stored on or below the desk. Only one person is allowed in the carrel at a time. It is the responsibility of carrel partners to determine the use of assigned time slots.

Library carrels are not soundproof. Any conversation in your carrel can be heard in surrounding carrels.

Please do not use your carrel as an office. Coffee pots, hot plates, electric heaters and other silimar equipment are prohibited.

You may keep library materials in your carrel if they are properly checked out. Any noncirculating library materials (periodicals, reference materials, newspapers, etc.) or library materials that have not been checked out will be removed. The Library is not responsible for the loss of personal materials or library materials charged out to you. For the safety of your materials and personal possessions, the carrel door should be locked at all times.