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Phone: 202-727-0321
Hours: Service hours.
Notes: A-Z list of on-site accessible databases. Washingtoniana Collection is a good source of items published about D.C. or by Washingtonians. People who are D.C. Residents, work in D.C., attend school in D.C., or pay D.C. taxes can get a D.C. Public Library card. Residents of some counties or cities of Maryland (Montgomery, Prince George's) or Virginia (Fairfax, Frederick County, Loudoun, Arlington, Prince William, Falls Church, Alexandria) can also get a library card for free.
George Mason University has state-of-the-art libraries: the Fenwick Library on the Fairfax campus; the Mason Square Library and Law Library in Arlington; and the Mercer Library on the Manassas campus. Check library hours of operation.
If the item you need is in one of Mason's libraries or one of the Washington Research Library Consortium member libraries (American, Catholic, Gallaudet, George Washington, Georgetown, Howard, Marymount or University of the District of Columbia), it can be delivered to your local Mason library in 24 to 48 hours.
Graduates have worked at: NASA Goddard Archives, Washington Post, Embodied Labs, Inheritance Baltimore, the Newark Museum of Art, UMD Archives, Pennsylvania State Archives, MD Correctional Facility Library Services, American Library Association, Library Associates Companies (LAC), Library of Congress, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS), D.C. Court of Appeals, Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, LGBT Equity Library, National Library of Medicine, as well as many public school libraries, county library systems, law offices, and university/academic libraries.
Researchers from other institutions can apply for library access and borrowing. You may qualify if you are faculty, a doctoral student, or a librarian/curator from another university or academic institution.
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