Student Services and Academic Resources

Career Services

The Graves Center for Calling & Career assists students and alumni with planning and preparing for their careers. The Center offers a comprehensive range of services, including individual career advising, group programs and on-line resources. The Center assists students in understanding their skills, interests, and values while connecting this knowledge with various career options, career exploration, and on-campus recruiting. More information may be found on this website: http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/career/.

Counseling Services

The Counseling Center offers confidential services to any student, faculty, or staff member of Georgetown College. Services are covered at no extra charge. More information may be found on this website:

http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/campus-life/student-wellness

Disability Support Services

Accommodations Georgetown College has a dedicated Disability Services Coordinator who serves as a liaison between students and faculty in communicating the nature of a student’s diagnosed disability and suggesting appropriate academic accommodations for the student. Students who wish to receive accommodations must provide the Disability Services Coordinator with a copy of a medical report listing their diagnosis. It can also be helpful to provide a copy of any IEPs or accommodations used in prior educational settings. It is the student’s responsibility to request accommodations each semester he or she wishes to use them. Accommodations may not be applied retroactively. Students with questions about accommodations are encouraged to contact the Disability Services Coordinator directly at [email protected].

Information Technology Services

Information Technology Services provides technology support services to the faculty, staff, and students of Georgetown College. The specific areas of support are voice communications, data networking, administrative computing, media services, academic consulting services, academic computing labs, training, and help desk services. Information about help-desk services and about downloading Microsoft Office may be found on these websites:

https://my.georgetowncollege.edu/ICS/Departments/Information_Technology_Services/ (login is required)

Anna Ashcraft Ensor Learning Resource Center

The Anna Ashcraft Ensor Learning Resource Center (LRC) opened in 1998 with more than 55,000 square feet of finished space and has seating for more than 300. The LRC encloses four levels and houses the college library, a writing center, two computer classrooms, a lecture space, art galleries, several teaching classrooms, a conference room, and a coffeehouse café.

The LRC’s Special Collections and Archives is a depository for materials relating to the history of Georgetown College, as well as a selective depository for Scott County or local materials.

There are multiple individual study carrels, along with eight group study rooms, that are available without reservations. The library has a wireless environment along with more than 50 computer workstations for walk-in use. Black and white and color printers are available to students, faculty, and staff. The building currently holds more than 127,000 printed books, along with providing access to more than 234,000 e-books. Access to more than 100 database titles is available electronically. More than 120,000 media titles include DVDs, audiobooks, CDs, and streaming media.

Librarians provide individual assistance and collaborate with faculty to offer sessions on the effective use of technologies, research techniques, and the use of the library’s electronic resources. Library and research instruction is presented through one-on-one sessions and via group presentations in classrooms or in the library. The LRC offers a variety of resources and services to its users; information regarding those services is available through the LRC’s web page.

The LRC has an app available for download by searching “LRC” in the App Store or Google Play. The app gives one access to library hours, catalog and database research, one’s personal account, and much more. Additionally, LRC staff collaborated with teaching faculty to develop Research Genius, an app focused on delivering research education and assistance to students on their phones, tablets, or computers. Search for “Research Genius” in the App Store or on Google Play or find the web version at http://libguides.georgetowncollege.edu/RG.

To supplement GC’s book and periodical collection, the LRC staff can borrow by means of interlibrary loan materials from other libraries for GC faculty, students, and staff. Students, with their GCard, may also borrow books directly from the FOKAL (Federation of Kentucky Academic Libraries) institutions at any member college’s campus.

Academic Computing

The College is committed to sustaining a technological environment that will serve as a model for information technology systems in liberal arts colleges. Information technology services are provided through state-of-the-art networks for voice, video, and data to every residence hall room, classroom, and office on campus. Academic computing services on campus provide support for student access to e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, database applications, and the internet from residence hall rooms or any of the academic computing labs on campus. Students use their college ID card for a variety of services on and off campus.

Informational Technology Services (ITS) has implemented a Secure Computing Policy that requires all student computers connected to the campus network to be running an up-to-date version of anti-virus, anti-spyware software and a vendor-supported operating system. ITS also offers an optional Computer Maintenance Agreement for limited hardware and software support. For a fee each semester, ITS will provide workbench support for problems with student- owned computers that cannot be corrected over the telephone. Please contact ITS for our written procedure for protecting the privacy of students enrolled in distance and correspondence education courses or programs.

The Anna Ashcraft Ensor Learning Resource Center (LRC) contains publicly accessible computers and peripheral equipment such as printers and scanners. Additionally, there are two computer labs on the lower floor of the LRC. All classrooms on campus have access to voice, video, and data services. Most classrooms are equipped with data projectors and computers.

Georgetown College is a Microsoft Campus Agreement participant. This program enables the college, faculty, and students to have access to the latest versions of Microsoft’s most popular applications. The ethics policy and recommended computer configurations are available on the internet, in the online Student Handbook, or by contacting ITS.