STUDENT RELATED INFORMATION

LIBRARY

The Library and Information Center houses collections of scientific and technical information as well as other scholarly resources. It includes over four million volumes, 2.8 million technical reports, and more than 1.4 million government documents. It is an official depository of the U.S. Government Printing Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Library's goals include increasing the amount and quality of information available on the desktop, increasing individual productivity, and creating a rich learning environment for students. Its digital institutional repository, SMARTech (http://smartech.gatech.edu/), is the largest in the Southeast, comprised of 13,000 GT-produced research items, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, conference papers, annual reports, campus publications, learning objects and more.

Library facilities include the West Commons with 100 computer workstations for individual student productivity and multimedia creations. The East Commons is comprised of group computer workstations, accommodations for academic socializing, a presentation performance venue, current displays of outstanding student and faculty output, and a cafe. Staff of the Resource Center, a collaboration of OIT's walk-in support, Success Programs, Undergraduate Advising, and Graduate Fellowships, offer tutoring, personal computer assistance, academic advising and assistance with graduate fellowships and scholarships. In recognition of the Library’s robust agenda with digital initiatives, transformation of physical spaces, and student engagement, the library was awarded the 2007 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award by the Association of College and Research Libraries. The Library is open 24 hours most days of the semester.

The Library's website (www.library.gatech.edu) provides access to a comprehensive suite of full text databases and indices in all academic disciplines. Free delivery of books and articles is provided to faculty, staff and distance learning students. Most articles are delivered as digital text to the desktop. The Library supplements its digital and print collections through GALILEO, a state initiative which provides access to thousands of electronic journals, citation databases and numeric data.

Subject librarians provide skilled assistance with information resources and services in all academic disciplines. Students and faculty are encouraged to collaborate with their subject specialists early in their academic careers. These librarians work with faculty on scholarly publishing and with students on information skills within specific courses.

Formal arrangements through library consortia facilitate book borrowing and access to materials. The GIL Universal Catalog gives access to books owned by other University System of Georgia (USG) libraries with an express ordering mechanism for delivery of resources (GIL Express). The GT ID card provides walk-up borrowing at USG libraries and Emory University.

The Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, ARCHE, ASERL, CNI, LOCKSS, Portico, OCLC, SOLINET, and a partner with the Library of Congress in the MetaArchive Cooperative Preservation Network.

According to the Institute's financial reports, the Library has received the following funding for the fiscal years 1999 through 2008:

Source: Office of the Dean and Director, Libraries