By Kelli Anne Gecawich & Justin Barnett The Technology Checkout page is one of the most frequently visited on the Georgia Southern Libraries website. It has information on what equipment is available for the university community to check out, types of equipment available, checkout policies, and more helpful information on what technology the Libraries can…
By Kristen Harrington Coastal Plain Regional Library System Headquarters may look like another house in the neighborhood in Tift County, Georgia; it is quite the contrary. Coastal Plain Regional Library System serves over 112,000 Georgia residents across six counties in south Central Georgia. In addition to housing regional staff, our headquarters location also serves as…
By Will Peebles Live Oak Public Libraries (LOPL) aspires to be a haven to its local community, and it is through the pursuit of this goal that the social services program was created. With the hiring of Regional Social Services Coordinator Savanna Waddle in October 2022, LOPL patrons in Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty counties gained…
By Jacob Lackner The Oxford College Library is proud of their library leader program. During the school year, the library employs over 50 student employees in total. At the end of their first year, student employees can apply to become Library Leaders. The library is open 24 hours during the school week, and Library Leaders…
By Jason Wright In May the Georgia Tech Library unveiled its revamped digital repository to the Tech community. Visit https://repository.gatech.edu to explore the site. The Georgia Tech Digital Repository collects, preserves, and expands access to the unique digital collections of immediate and long-term value to Georgia Tech and the global community. The site brings together…
By: Deborah George Yvette Williams Keitaro Mikami Lakshmi Ramachandran Jozina Cappello The Gwinnett Technical College Library (Lawrenceville campus) recently reopened its doors after a long-planned renovation! Students are enjoying our modern and bright library spaces. Popular features include six large study rooms, each filled with natural light thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows. The rooms are equipped…
Conference Details Registration is now open for the 2023 Georgia Libraries Conference (GLC). This year’s conference will be in-person October 4-6, 2023 in Athens, GA, with a virtual option to follow the next week October 10-12, on the Whova platform. Options include full conference registration, single day registration, and virtual conference registration. GLC is a…
Academic Library Division Vice Chair / Chair Elect Laura Burtle, MSLS, JD Associate DeanScholarly Communications and Copyright LibrarianGeorgia State University Librarylburtle@gsu.edu | 404-413-2706 Laura Burtle is an Associate Dean in the Georgia State University Library, with responsibility for the areas of Collections & Discovery, Resource Acquisitions, Digital Library Services, and Scholarly Communications. She was chair…
Vice President/President Elect Ben Carter Georgia Public Library Service Ben G. Carter joined GLA in 2002, as a library assistant presenting on teen library programming at our annual conference in Athens that October. Since that time, he has served GLA in numerous ways including work on both the Scholarship Committee (serving as Chair for 2018)…
By Shannon Tyner and Grant Hedrick Libraries strive to be inclusive and supportive spaces for all members of their communities. That means creating spaces, building collections, and offering programs that meet the needs of diverse groups. Grant Hedrick, Library Assistant III at Sibley Library in Marietta, Georgia, found that programming for the queer community, an…