Georgia Tech Library

Georgia Tech Library

The front of the Georgia Tech Library
Type	Academic library
Established	1885
Location	Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia
Collection
Items collected	4.7 million
Other information
Budget	$13 million[1]
Director	Catherine Murray-Rust[2] Dean of Libraries
Website	www.library.gatech.edu

The Georgia Tech Library is an academic library that serves the needs of students, faculty, and staff at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The library consists of three buildings- the S. Price Gilbert Library, the Dorothy M. Crosland Tower, and the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons.

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) recognized the library's effort to reinvent itself by awarding it a 2007 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award.^[3][4][5] The Georgia Tech Library is located in the center of campus^[6] and is open 24/7 as of the Fall term of 2014.^[7] Among the Library staff members are subject specialists in 35 disciplines.^[8]

History

Judge Sterling Price Gilbert donated a large sum of Coca-Cola stock to Georgia Tech with the stipulation that the proceeds be used to construct a new library. He later donated more funds to the cause. Ground was broken for the S. Price Gilbert Memorial Library on July 5, 1951, and the building was dedicated on November 21, 1953.^[9]

Dorothy M. Crosland was the long-time head librarian; initially appointed as Assistant Librarian in 1925, she was promoted to Librarian in 1927 and Director of Libraries in 1953, a title she would hold until her retirement in 1971.^[10][11][12]

Paul M. Heffernan, then a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, was the lead designer on the S. Price Gilbert Library.^[13]

Collections

The Library’s collections include over 2.4 million books, bound periodicals and serials, including about 900,000 government documents, 2.7 million technical reports, over 197,000 cartographic materials, more than 240 online databases, over 29,000 electronic books and 39,000 e-journals.^[14] There is a separate Architecture Library which houses over 45,000 books.^[15]

The Archives and Records Management department preserves and provides access to the history of Georgia Tech,^[16] and includes over 4300 rare books emphasizing the history of science and technology, a 4000-volume science fiction collection,^[17] photographic collections,^[18] and approximately 1000 manuscript collections.

In mid-late 2015,^[19] the library will be moving the majority of its print collections to an off-site service center as part of a partnership with Emory University.^[20]

Services

West Commons

East Commons Collaborative Computing desks

The Library's two information commons, West and East Commons, provide computer hardware and software geared to the needs of students, including a multimedia center and computers specifically set up for group study, known as the "collaborative computing" desks. The commons areas are a component of the partnership between the Library and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) which has also resulted in the creation of the Resource Center in the Library providing technology support, academic advising, and tutoring.^[21]

The Library’s digital initiatives include the institutional repository, SMARTech, which captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes in digital form the intellectual output of the Institute’s students, faculty, and researchers.^[22] Another digital service is ePage@Tech, which provides assistance publishing electronic books, journals, and conference proceedings; hosting of conferences, symposia, and lecture series, and captures instructional materials and multimedia.^[23]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Georgia Tech Library.

• Official website
• SMARTech
• A History of the Georgia Tech Library

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