As the university’s leadership steered a rapidly growing 1960s Georgetown into a modern era with an increased focus on research, public service, and institutional autonomy, President Edward Bunn, S.J. made a commitment to build two new libraries that would support these and other emerging initiatives. The Blommer Science Library opened in 1962 as part of the Reiss Science Building, home to the biology, chemistry, and physics departments.

Riggs Library opened in 1891 in the south tower of Healy Hall.1 E.

The Bioethics Research Library is located in Georgetown's Healy Hall and is open to students, faculty, and visiting researchers. It occupies the space once known as the Hirst Library. The Bioethics Research Library first began as just a few shelves collected by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, but now has the largest collection of books on bioethics and biomedical research, with more than 100,000 volumes.

The Blommer Science Library is located on the third floor of Reiss Science Building and houses volumes on science, computer science, and math, as the second oldest library on Campus.