Libraries

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Includes event program, invitation, text of address by President Timothy S. Healy, S.J., commemorative bookplate ("A Gift to the Georgetown University Library on the occasion of the acquisition of its 1,000,000th volume 1983. Presented by"), and material re arrangements.

Scope and Contents A note on the first page reads: "This register was made for the Centennial Celebration with the intention that the names of all visitors present on all or any one of the three days should be registered. Its cost was $30. But only about 700, out of the 1500 of more who attended, were actually inscribed. J.H. Richards, S.J." The registrar was also used to record attendees at subsequent University events including the 125th Anniversary Celebration, 116th Commencement, 117th...

Scope and Contents "Miniatures" was a limited edition publication of two hundred numbered copies. This collection includes copies numbered 2, 4, 29, and 144. The cover bears embossed seals of Georgetown University and the Riggs Family. Included are a foreword by Charles J. Foley, S.J., and sections on: "Manuscripts in the Riggs Memorial Library"; "Incunabula in the Riggs Memorial Library"; "The Riggs Memorial Library and Early Americana"; and "The Library and Its Work Today."The selection of 1640...

Abstract The collection publications and ephemera related to the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its library, dating from 1971 to the 2010s. These include newsletters, promotional materials, and clippings. It includes a number of publications produced by the Bioethics Research Library, including Scope Notes (primers on bioethical topics), bioethics bibliographies, bioethics thesauruses, database guides, and lists of holdings. The KIE Newsletters include messages from the Institute's...

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Contains statistics submitted to Association of Research Libraries (ARL) by Georgetown University Library, 1963-2001.

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Includes fabric and finish swatches.

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Contains script, cassette and audio tape recordings, and slides from Library orientation sessions in the early 1970s. Slides show internal views of Library including lobby, reference area, card catalog, stacks, AV equipment, Secial Collections, as well as exterior views of Lauinger (including of parking lot and covered parking area under Library), Healy Hall, Reiss Science, Dahlgren Medical Library, and Law Library.

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Slides from orientation to Circulation/Access Services, 1975. Cassette tapes (2) labeled: Voice master 1988 and Voice master 1989 - Circulation.

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This ledger records use of Law Library material from February 1926 to March 1928. Entries, consisting of student names and material used, run chronologically. A list of Law Library staff for 1926 to 1927 appears at the front.

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Contains eleven, mounted, black-and-white photographs showing phases of construction work on Lauinger Library, beginning with ground clearing in the summer of 1967. A card with the photographs indicates that they were taken by Jim Lawrence.

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Bills, receipts, and correspondence re book and serial orders.

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Entries for 1938 reference the beginning of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) inventory of the Library. Other entries detail acquisitions, changes in classifications schemes and arrangements, new staff, etc.

Scope and Contents Contains clippings, some of articles by University Librarian Phillips Temple, on library collections, acquisitions, and events. Reference is made to the gift of the Hunt Collection in 1953 and to "revamping" the structure of the Library in a "Hoya" article of 10/16/1954. This reports that the Randall Reading Room is to be devoted exclusively to reference books, periodicals and the card catalog and that the Shandelle Reading Room is to serve as the circulation area. Other articles focus on...