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Thousands of Hoyas have walked beneath the words Cognoscetis Veritatem et Veritas Liberabit Vos – “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32) Thanks for joining us for #50DaysofLau!
Lauinger Library's architect, John Carl Warnecke, was a family friend of the Kennedys and designed JFK's gravesite. #50DaysofLau
1 million books! Lauinger Library acquired its millionth volume, a first edition of Paradise Lost, in 1983. The acquisition was made possible by the generosity of more than 170 Library Associates and other friends of the library. #50DaysofLau
Students spent hours listening to reel-to-reel audio tapes in the Library's audio/visual department, the precursor to the Gelardin New Media Center. #50DaysofLau
How did Lauinger Library get its name? Learn about Joseph Mark Lauinger and the Lauinger family's history at Georgetown in today's #50DaysofLau video. See the full video at https://t.co/sIedseT58M
Several commercial products have gotten their start in the Library's Maker Hub, including @OxiWear, a wearable blood oxygen monitoring device invented by Shavini Fernando and shown here in prototype phases. #50DaysofLau
Mariah Carey—or at least her music—visited Lau in 2013 when Georgetown University Dance Company and @GeorgetownGives organized a holiday flash mob set to "All I Want for Christmas is You." #50DaysofLau Watch the routine at https://t.co/MoAnnkWiMV
The small rooms on Lauinger's 2nd and 4th floors originally set aside for typewriters (shown her circa 1975) have since been repurposed as individual study rooms. #50DaysofLau
Discover a surprising connection between William Wordsworth and Moby-Dick as Adrian Vaagenes shares one of the remarkable items in our collections. #50DaysofLau
A 2005 chalk price board from the Midnight Mug, operated on the Library's second floor by @TheCorp. #50DaysofLau
Pat Watkins, who worked the evening shift at the Lauinger guard desk, was the face of the Library for many students for 37 years. In October, she recorded this message for the students who knew her. #50DaysofLau
Slug bug in the library! Before the University bookstore took over the space in 1973, much of Lauinger's lower level was a parking area. #50DaysofLau
Reminisce about the Library's behemoth card catalog—which took up half of the 3rd-floor reference space—with Sandy Hussey in today's #50DaysofLau video.
Cameron McKay of the Georgetown Medical Center used one of the Library's 3D printers to create this model of the human brain. #50DaysofLau
The university bookstore was housed in Lau's basement from 1973-1988. #50DaysofLau
The 1980s were a decade of computerization at Lau. We introduced the online catalog GEORGE in 1985. #50DaysofLau
In 2000, the library newsletter proudly announced that Pierce Reading Room and Lau's second floor would be open for round-the-clock studying. #50DaysofLau
The second floor of Lau has changed with the nature of studying, as these photos from 1970 and 2017 demonstrate. #50DaysofLau
Adrian Vaagenes shares one of the Library's unique artifacts—a scrapbook from the Woodstock Walking Club, a late 19th-century club of nature-loving Jesuit and Jesuit students. #50DaysofLau
Students checking the exam schedules in Lauinger's lobby in 1977. Exams weren't always at the same place or time as classes, so students relied on printed booklets and schedules posted around campus. #50DaysofLau
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