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The Georgia Tech Library and Information Center
is an academic
library that serves the needs of students, faculty, and staff
at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. 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.[1][2][3] The
Georgia Tech Library is located in the center of campus[4] and is
open almost 24/7 when school is in session, closing only Friday
evenings, Saturday evenings, and Sunday mornings.[5] Among
the Library staff members are subject specialists in 35
disciplines.[6]
History
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.[7] There
is a separate Architecture Library which houses over 45,000
books.[8] The
Archives and Records Management department preserves and provides
access to the history of Georgia Tech,[9] and
includes over 4300 rare books emphasizing the history of science
and technology, a 4000-volume science fiction collection,
photographic collections,[10] and
approximately 1000 manuscript collections.
Services
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.[11]. Also
included in the East Commons area is a Jazzman's Cafe.
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.[12]
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.[13]
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