Special Collections welcomes dozens of courses to our Barbara Ellis Jones (C’1974) Inquiry Classroom each year, facilitating student engagement with primary sources and object-based learning. Our materials and facilities are used every year as part of class visits from a variety of disciplines. Special Collections is an integral part of the teaching mission of Georgetown University. There are a number of historical newspapers in the Rare Books collections for a list of titles click here. The location for books in our collection begin with the designation "Lauinger Library Special Collections.” To search for a book in our holdings, you may use the Georgetown University Library catalog, HoyaSearch. Our Rare Books may be viewed only in the Paul F. Titles are selected for a variety of reasons, including strengthening of holdings important to faculty for both current and future teaching and research. The library is fortunate in having amassed over the years a number of incunabula, supplemented by representative examples of the work of most of the distinguished printers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, ranging from Aldus, Plantin, and Estienne to the Elzeviers.Ĭurrent collecting adds selectively not only to the general rare book collection but also to the named collections.
Collection strengths include art history, 19 th- and 20th-century British literature and Victorian novels, African-American literature and imprints, Jesuit history, American history and literature, intelligence and espionage, and the libraries of many important writers, scholars, presses and collectors. The rare books collection is comprised of many first editions, translations, inscribed and signed copies, and adaptations enabling textual and bibliographical research. The Rare Books Unit holds approximately 150,000 rare and historically significant printed books in Western languages dating from the 15th century to the present. These materials are open for research to all those interested. In addition to our broad, general rare book collection, there are named collections that focus on specific subjects, such as book arts, religion, science, literature, music, or American history. Materials for the collections are acquired in many languages, and include a wide variety of subject areas. Materials are collected in subject areas across the humanities and sciences. The Rare Books Unit of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections acquires rare, antiquarian and modern books of enduring value both for intellectual content and as historical artifacts. Booth Family Center for Special Collections.Rare Books, Manuscripts, Art & Archives.
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