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INTRODUCING LSC
Collection & Services
The Emory University and Georgia Tech Library Service Center
Hours, Locations, Directions
The Georgia Tech and Emory University libraries operate this state-of-the-art, climate-controlled Library Service Center (LSC) facility.
Students, faculty, and staff from Emory and Georgia Tech can use the center. This partnership supports the creation of a seamless shared collection, with Emory Library resources available to Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff, and vice versa. With a focus on user needs, the goal is to provide the best possible service and access to these materials.
Want to learn more about KSS Architects, the firm responsible for the design and construction of the LSC?
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The building is open to current Georgia Tech and Emory University students, faculty and staff Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except for university-observed holidays. Users planning a visit are asked to e-mail lsc@library.gatech.edu or call 404-727-1400 to ensure staff will be available to address concerns.
Parking is free during business hours. The LSC is located on Emory University's Briarcliff Property, 1260 Briarcliff Road in Atlanta.
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If you are interested in a story or quote about the Library Service Center, please contact:
Elaine Justice: elaine.justice@emory.edu, 404-727-0643 or
Lance Wallace: lance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu, 404-894-7460
e-mail: lsc@library.gatech.edu
Programs and Ingest
Unique Building Feature
The Georgia Tech and Emory University libraries operate this state-of-the-art, climate-controlled Library Service Center (LSC) facility. Students, faculty, and staff from Emory and Georgia Tech can use the center.
This partnership supports the creation of a seamless shared collection, making more Emory Library resources available to Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff, and vice versa. With a focus on user needs, the goal is to provide the best possible service and access to these materials.
To learn more about KSS Architects, the firm responsible for the design and construction of the LSC, please click here.
Water use was reduced 20 percent using low-flow fixtures and water-efficient landscaping
The roof reduces heat island effect
Regional and low-emitting materials used where applicable
PRECAST FAUX STUCCO EXOSKELETON
The Library Service Center features a distinctive exoskeleton made up of insulated precast concrete panels, protecting the building from the elements while providing structural strength. The heaviest of the 40-foot tall panels required DOT permitting to be transported from Greenville, S.C. to the job site.
Because its Archive Module holds more than 2 million volumes, the building is equipped with sprinkler heads delivering 25 gallons of water per minute.
Engineers built a 157,000-gallon water tank to help feed the system.
ARCHIVE MODULE & BLAST FREEZER
The LSC features a blast freezer to disinfect volumes of microbial organisms and repair books damaged by water.
FILM STORAGE
Film, being delicate, requires two separate portions of storage to allow the material to acclimate to the temperature of storage and the building.
SOIL EXPORT, SURCHARGE & SUPER-FLAT SLAB
The foundation for the Library Service Center was built n soil stacked in layers several feet high to achieve a level of compaction that makes the site suitable for shallow foundations rather than deep foundations.
Soil used in the project was exported for use in other projects on site.
To stabilize the 32-foot shelves and human-operated order pickers, the LSC is built on a super-flat slab, meaning the grade shifts less than the thickness of a nickel over 10 feet.
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What is a Library Service Center?
The LSC represents a new approach to the libraries' mission of preservation and collection of scholarship. The materials in the Library Service Center will be stored at 55 degrees and 30 percent humidity, providing optimal, long-term preservation and retention for print and microform collections. Under these conditions, books, papers and documents will be preserved for more than 250 years.
Why is the Library Service Center needed?
Only about 17 percent of the Georgia Tech and Emory collections overlap, which means the LSC brings together content from two major research university libraries with complementary strengths under one roof, expanding access to a broad range of resources and freeing up campus spaces. The facility leverages the services each institution provides, and it enhances the ability to meet the changing needs of users.
How will I use the library service center?
Emory and Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff can request items from their respective library catalogs. For assistance and more details on services, please contact either Emory Libraries or Georgia Tech Library.
Who can use the Library Service Center?
Students, faculty, and staff from both Emory and Georgia Tech will be able to use the center. Users planning a visit are asked to e-mail lsc@library.gatech.edu or call 404-727-1400 to ensure staff will be available for assistance.
Where is the Library Service Center?
The Library Service Center is located on Emory University's Briarcliff Property, 1260 Briarcliff Road in Atlanta.
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Jeremy Corbyn faces tricky by-election test of Labour popularity in New Year
Jeremy Corbyn faces a challenging by-election test in the New Year after one of his most outspoken critics announced he […]
By Nigel Morris
Jeremy Corbyn faces tough test in Copeland (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Wire)
Jeremy Corbyn faces a challenging by-election test in the New Year after one of his most outspoken critics announced he is to stand down as an MP.
Jamie Reed will quit as the MP for Copeland in west Cumbria next month to take up a job at the Sellafield nuclear plant in the constituency.
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Mr Reed secured a majority of just 2,564 over the Conservatives in last year's election, with Ukip coming third. The constituency voted in favour of Brexit in the June referendum.
The contest will be fought against the backdrop of dismal poll ratings for Labour, although the party has successfully defended several seats in by-elections since Mr Corbyn became leader.
Nuclear and defence industries
Given the large numbers of Copeland constituents who work in the nuclear or defence industries, both the Tories and Ukip will be certain to campaign heavily on the Labour leader's stance on those issues.
Mr Reed resigned as a shadow minister within minutes of Mr Corbyn's election last year, citing the new leader's opposition to nuclear energy as the reason for his departure.
He is also a strong supporter of renewing Trident, condemning his leader's opposition to nuclear weapons as "juvenile" and "narcissistic".
The replacement submarines for the nuclear missile system are set to be built in the neighbouring constituency of Barrow.
Called for Corbyn to quit
He was among MPs who called for Mr Corbyn to quit this summer, saying the leader and those around him had "chosen to poison the well of our national political discourse".
Mr Reed is stepping down to become the head of development and community relations at the Sellafield plant.
He said: "This decision has got absolutely nothing to do with Jeremy Corbyn. On a personal level I've got a very cordial relationship."
He was moving on because he believed that working at Sellafield would be a better way of serving the community than remaining an MP, he added.
'Great service'
Mr Corbyn praised Mr Reed's "great service to his party, his country and his constituency".
He said: "We now face a by-election and local party members will soon choose a candidate equally committed to Copeland and its people."
Patrick McLoughlin, the Tory chairman, said: "It is a sorry state of affairs when talented MPs like him no longer feel comfortable representing Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, a divided party run by a leader who opposes Trident and wants to dismantle our armed forces."
Ukip's new leader, Paul Nuttall, who is targeting Labour seats in the North of England, ruled out standing in the contest.
He is understood to be considering standing in a possible by-election in Leigh if Andy Burnham wins the mayoralty of Greater Manchester and resigns his parliamentary seat.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has provided an unprecedented, detailed view of highly energetic events in the core of a galaxy 30 million light-years away. The observations are a first step in HST's search for super-massive black holes at the nuclei of active galaxies.
Holland Ford (Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute), Ian Evans, Anne Kinney (Space Telescope Science Institute), Lee Armus and Saul Caganoff (Johns Hopkins University) used the HST's Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC) to look into the core of the galaxy NGC 1068. The resulting data will be used to support follow-on observations by the HST's Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) Investigation Definition Team headed by Richard Harms (Applied Research Corporation). The FOS observation will analyze light from deep within the nucleus to help astronomers better understand the dynamics of the "engine" which powers the galaxy's unusual activity.
Located at a distance roughly two thirds of the way to the great Virgo clusters of galaxies, NGC 1068 looks like a normal barred spiral galaxy. However, since the year 1909, the core of the galaxy has been known to be the source of unusual activity, which is made evident by the presence of extremely hot (ionized), fast moving clouds of gas in the vicinity of the galaxy's nucleus. Similar galactic fireworks have been detected at the heart of other galaxies as well, and they are collectively referred to as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).
The core of NGC 1068 is approximately 1/50 the entire luminosity of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Other AGNs emit as much energy as twenty Milky Way galaxies put together (equal to the combined light of more than one trillion stars like our Sun). Because the brightness of an AGN varies on time scales of weeks, astronomers know that the diameter of the region producing this enormous luminosity is no more than a few tens of light days across (50 to 100 times the size of the Solar System).
Thermonuclear reactions in stars cannot generate such a prodigious amount of energy. The favored mechanism is a massive black hole, where energy is released as matter plunges into the hole's deep "gravity-well". A black hole with a mass equivalent to approximately 100 million stars like our Sun would be required to account for the nuclear activity in NGC 1068.
"Because NGC 1068 is very bright and relatively nearby, HST images and spectra should enable us to determine the exact location of the black hole, and determine the effects of jets, winds, and ionizing radiation from the black hole on the central 100 parsecs [300 light-years] of the surrounding galaxy," says Ford.
"The WF/PC images resolve the center of the galaxy and reveal far more detail than has been seen in any pictures previously taken from the ground," says Ford. Several gaseous clouds, some as small as 10 light-years across, are clearly resolved in the central 150 light-years. Three of the clouds correspond exactly with the brightest radio sources previously observed near the core.
Though NGC 1068's "central engine" is not directly visible, its effect is clearly evident on numerous gaseous clouds in the vicinity of the nucleus. The clouds are glowing as a result of radiation beamed out of the hidden "central engine." One of the clouds is also possibly being compressed by a jet of plasma ejected from the nucleus.
The WF/PC images show that the spatial distribution of the gas clouds, even on the smallest scale, appear to trace a cone of ionizing radiation, which is beamed out from the central engine. These images confirm an earlier theory that NGC 1068's suspected black hole is shrouded in a dense ring of dust. Energy released from the nucleus escapes through the ring's "donut hole" to produce a brilliant "searchlight" of radiation.
NGC 1068 was observed by the WF/PC in the Planetary Camera mode through two filters; the first was a narrow-band filter which transmits star light and the light emitted by doubly ionized oxygen, while the second was a medium-band filter which passes light from stars while excluding light from ionized gas. The researchers subtracted the two pictures to obtain an image, which only shows the clouds of ionized gas near the nucleus. The images were then improved through image reconstruction techniques.
The Faint Object Spectrograph Team will now use this remarkable new view of NGC 1068 to target specific clouds that may be reflecting light from the vicinity of the suspected black hole.
Faint Object Spectrograph Investigation Definition Team: Principal Investigator: Richard Harms (Applied Research Corporation); Team: Richard Allen (UA), Roger Angel (UA), Frank Bartko (SA), Edward Beaver (University of California, San Diego), Ralph Bohlin (STScl), Margaret Burbidge (University of California, San Diego), Arthur Davidsen (Johns Hopkins University), George Hartig (STScl), and Bruce Margon (UW).


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Big Bang Theory and Glee actress Jane Galloway Heitz passes away at 78
She was known best for portraying show choir head Lillian Adler in the high school musical series Glee.
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Actress Jane Galloway Heitz, best known for staring in The Big Bang Theory and Glee has passed away at the age of 78.
She was known best for portraying show choir head Lillian Adler in the high school musical series Glee, while she appeared in the hit science sit-com playing the character Mildred.
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The actress died of congestive heart failure in an Illinois hospital last week, shared her daughter Amie Richardson with the Hollywood Reporter.
Heitz also helped launch the careers of chat show host Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet, as a casting agent.
Eric Stonestreet, paid tribute to his former mentor in a heart-touching post on social media.
Jane was the first casting director to ever call me in for an audition in Chicago. She became a great friend and mentor. I tried to always make sure she knew she had a starring role in my career. She put me on that path I'm on.
I wish i could have said thank you one more time. https://t.co/zPAHtzPByJ
— Eric Stonestreet (@ericstonestreet) November 21, 2019
She also appeared in shows like ER, Grey's Anatomy, US version of Shameless, Galloway Heitz also appeared in films including the 2007 crime thriller, I Know Who Killed Me and David Lynch's The Straight Story, in 1999.
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