guides.library.georgetown.edu Digital Atrium for Scholars

guides.library.georgetown.edu is Georgetown University Library’s digital atrium an ever-growing collection of more than 150 LibGuides that turn first-year undergrads into confident scholars and keep doctoral candidates current in their niches. Each guide is built by a liaison librarian who pairs subject expertise with instructional-design training, so pages load as bite-sized boxes rather than intimidating walls of text.

Start with “Getting Started @ Georgetown” to learn how to unlock the 3-million-volume collection from off-campus: two-click VPN setup, browser bookmarklets that rewrite pay-per-view URLs into free proxies, and a live-chat widget staffed 24/7 by rotating Jesuit-trained reference staff. Subject guides drill deeper ”Islamic Manuscripts” embeds high-resolution folios from the 13th-century Maghribi Qur’an, while “Business Databases” ranks Bloomberg, S&P Global, and Refinitiv by learning-curve difficulty and export format.

Tutorials live inside every page: 90-second videos show how to build an advanced search in JSTOR, create an RSS feed for new PubMed matches, or migrate citations from Zotero to LaTeX. Accessibility is baked in—WCAG-compliant color contrast, auto-generated captions, and screen-reader tables that announce “column 3, peer-reviewed status.” Whether you need a quick APA example or a semester-long roadmap for thesis research, the Georgetown guides deliver librarian-level help at 3 a.m. in any time zone.