Georgetown University Libraries

Woodstock Theological Library

Phone: 202-687-7513

The Woodstock Theological Center Library is one of the oldest and most notable Catholic theological libraries in the United States. Founded in 1869 at Woodstock College (outside Baltimore, Maryland), it sojourned from 1969 to 1974 in New York City. With the 1974 closing of Woodstock College's Columbia University incarnation, the library moved to Georgetown University, Washington, DC, to become the research tool for the Woodstock Theological Center.

The Woodstock Theological Center Library is one of the oldest and most notable Catholic theological libraries in the United States. Founded in 1869 at Woodstock College (outside Baltimore, Maryland), it sojourned from 1969 to 1974 in New York City. With the 1974 closing of Woodstock College's Columbia University incarnation, the library moved to Georgetown University, Washington, DC, to become the research tool for the Woodstock Theological Center. Owned by the Maryland and New York provinces of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the library is currently housed as a separate collection in Georgetown's Joseph Mark Lauinger Library for use by Woodstock Theological Center fellows, Georgetown university students and faculty and by scholars from around the world. In 2001 WTCL became a member of the Washington Theological Consortium and Washington Research Library Consortium.

Contact Information:
Telephone: (202) 687-7513
Fax: (202) 687-7473

Woodstock Theological Center Library
Georgetown University
Box 571170
Washington, DC 20057-1170

Blommer Science Library

Phone: 202-687-5651

The Blommer Science Library is located on the third floor of the Reiss Science Building and provides library services to all Main Campus students, faculty, and staff. The Library houses part of the science collections for biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics, and provides information and research services for undergraduate and graduate programs in those fields.

The Blommer Science Library is located on the third floor of the Reiss Science Building and provides library services to all Main Campus students, faculty, and staff. The Library houses part of the science collections for biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics, and provides information and research services for undergraduate and graduate programs in those fields. For medicine and the health sciences, please visit Dahlgren Library. Some 66,000 books and bound periodicals and more than 700 current journal subscriptions are housed in the Blommer Science Library. Older science materials are housed in Lauinger Library, Riggs Library, and an off-campus shelving facility. The Library opened on September 20, 1962 and bears the name of Henry J. Blommer (C '26).

Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library

The Lauinger Library is located in the heart of the Washington metropolitan area, on the Main Campus of Georgetown University, above the Key Bridge and the Potomac River, at the corner of 37th and Prospect Streets NW. The library houses materials in the humanities, social sciences and business, as well as U.S. federal government documents and a Special Collections Department, which includes archives, rare books, manuscripts and rare prints. Lauinger Library also serves as the center for the following: The Gelardin New Media Center; the Durkin Collection; the McGhee Collection; the McGhee Center Collection in Alanya, Turkey; the Villa Le Balze Collection in Fiesole, Italy; and the Woodstock Theological Center Library.

Location: 

Joseph Mark Lauinger Library

Georgetown University

37th & O Streets NW

Washington, DC 20057-1174

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