2025 Impact Report | Georgia Tech Library

Welcome from Dean Leslie Sharp

The past 12 months have been extraordinary for the Georgia Tech Library on multiple fronts, and I am once again delighted to share this annual report with you that demonstrates the impact the Library has on campus and beyond. As in previous years, our work is grounded in making students our top priority, being responsible stewards, celebrating collaboration, and championing innovation.

The year 2025 was marked by tremendous demand for the Library’s services — everything from course reserves, to Gadgets lending, to Interlibrary Loan. Through these services alone, the Library saved students, faculty, and staff more than $2.3 million this year. And that does not include the $2.8 million that the Library saved Georgia Tech researchers in article publication charges.

Secondly, I want to acknowledge the remarkable increase in how our spaces support and encourage teaching, learning, and collaboration. More than 11,600 users made 59,213 room reservations across the Library and Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons — an extraordinary level of engagement that reflects how essential these learning environments are to the Georgia Tech experience.

All this information, and much more, can be explored in the interactive Tableau visualizations included in this report. These charts and dashboards provide transparent insight into the data guiding our decision‑making and illuminate the trends shaping how our campus engages with the Library.

Beyond the numbers, 2025 was also a year of collaboration and partnership. Our librarians and staff continued to engage deeply with colleges and departments across campus, supporting interdisciplinary initiatives and expanding access points for students and researchers. Whether through expert consultations, instructional support, collaborative digital projects, or expanded service models, our work reflects the Library’s central role in connecting people, ideas, and resources across Georgia Tech.

Finally, I want to highlight the Library’s yearlong Defining Skylines: John Portman and the Architectural Evolution of Downtown Atlanta exhibition and complementary events, which honored the extraordinary life and significant contributions of John Portman, the visionary architect responsible for designing some of Atlanta’s most iconic buildings.

The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) recognized Defining Skylines with the Best of the South for its exceptional efforts in preservation education, research, and outreach.

Everything you see in this report is a testament to the extraordinary work of my colleagues across the Library. Their creativity, expertise, and unwavering commitment to our users make all this possible. I invite you to explore our programs, initiatives, data, and achievements in detail — and please reach out if you have questions or would like to learn more.

Leslie N. Sharp, Ph.D.

Dean of Libraries

Did you know?

Through course reserves, Read and Publish agreements, Interlibrary Loan, Gadgets, locker rentals, room reservations, and more the Georgia Tech Library saved students, faculty, and staff more than $5.1 million in 2025.

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Did you know?

In 2025, 11,639 users made 59,213 room reservations in the Library buildings and Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons. That's a cost savings of more than $850,000.

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2025 Spotlight | Defining Skylines

John Portman and the Architectural Evolution of Downtown Atlanta opens

In March, the Library’s special exhibition highlighting the extraordinary life and work of John Portman, the visionary architect behind some of Atlanta’s most iconic buildings, opened in the Price Gilbert first floor Exhibit Gallery.

The exhibit was open until December and included programming throughout fall semester -- with a GT Arts Salon in September and, in November, a panel discussion with local architects, historians and community organizers and a virtual tour of Portman's homes.

In September, the Library announced the exhibit won the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Best of the South award for excellence in preservation education, research and outreach.

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Did you know?

Interlibrary Loan saw a 20 percent increase in 2025, resulting in a cost savings to students and faculty of more than $78,000.

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A Year of Success: Meet Partners From Across Campus

In this video, you'll meet a few of the Georgia Tech faculty and staff members who were able to use the Library's audio and video studios to improve their outreach, research, and teaching efforts over the last year.

By the Numbers

In accordance with the Institute's core values of being responsible stewards and acting ethically, the Library is proud to present this look at the data driving our decision-making in 2025.

Below you will find interactive Tableau visualizations, allowing the reader insight into each data point for the last several years. Feel free to choose the views and visualizations you feel are most informative.

Under each visualization you will find more context for the data and key takeaways for the year in review.

Circulation

Key Takeaways: Circulation

Total physical item circulation: Physically circulating items, like gadgets and books, grew by nearly 49 percent in 2025, reaching more than 46,000. Last year, the growth was 42 percent, with about 31,000 items lent out. This is mainly due to the increasing popularity of gadget lending, including instant gadgets and Gadgets Pro, which continues to grow year over year.
A closer look | Gadgets circulation: Here we see the overall growth of gadgets circulation since 2022. With nearly 34,000 total gadgets circulated in 2025, the service grew 37 percent over last year. Since 2022, gadgets circulation has grown more than 212 percent.
A closer look | Library Service Center Item Requests: Items requested and delivered from the Library Service Center (LSC), the climate-controlled facility jointly operated by Georgia Tech and Emory, grew nearly four times as much as last year. In 2024, LSC deliveries were up 16 percent. In 2023, there was only 4 percent growth.
Library Service Center Item Delivery Time: Average delivery time for 2025 dropped from the previous year, from about 39 hours to just under 33. That delivery time has remained consistent since the pandemic. Months where averages jump drastically are caused by holidays during which the LSC was closed.

Instruction

Key Takeaways: Instruction

Instruction | Course Integrated Instruction and Courses for Credit: Overall instruction more than doubled in 2025, rising from 92 classes in 2024 to 215 in 2025. This significant growth reflects the Library's restructuring of its research and instructional services to better meet the needs of the Institute, including expert teams and a commitment to in-course instruction.
Instruction | Attendance: Roughly 6,800 students, faculty, staff and community members utilized in-person Library instruction. In addition to their in-person courses, Library instructors also created YouTube and Canvas tutorials available 24/7. While its difficult to ascertain the exact number of students receiving instruction asynchronously, it is easily in the thousands, dwarfing previous years' attendance.
Instruction | Workshops taught: In addition to specialty offerings for classes or majors, the Library expanded its general workshop offerings in 2025 by nearly 63 percent.
Instruction | Workshop attendance: Attendance in those workshops outpaced growth, with 79 percent more students, faculty and staff participating in Library workshops than in 2024.

Consultations

Key Takeaways: Consultations

Research consultations: Research consultations again decreased in 2025, this time by about 56 percent -- from 338 to 150. This drop reflects the restructuring of the Library's academic engagement offerings to better reflect the type of work done at the Institute. In short, the number has been dropping due to better online tools, so Library experts have been focusing on other opportunities for engagement across the Institute.
Consultations by Department: This graph provides insight into the departments meeting with faculty and students.

In-person and Online Help

Key Takeaways: In-person and Online Help

INFODesk Help: Interactions with Public Services staff (those working at the INFODesk on Grove Level of Price Gilbert or overseeing the web chat and phones) continued to explode in 2025, increasing nearly 52 percent over 2024 (itself a record year). For the second year in a row, the largest growth was for in-person walk-ups to the desk (nearly 56 percent growth over last year), meaning more students than ever are using on-campus help options.
Web Chat Help: Web chat numbers look significantly different in 2025 thanks to several new reporting methods and options for users. It was obviously a busy year, though, with more than 7,000 separate interactions cross a variety of electronic formats.
Patents and Trademarks Consultations: This is the first year the Library has tracked patent and trademark consultations. In 2025 there were 233. Future years will show trends.

E-Resources

Key Takeaways: E-Resources

E-Resources Usage: Overall use of electronic resources decreased about 3 percent in 2025, from 6.7 million to 6.5 million. This is expected fluctuation, and will not affect the Library's commitment to providing resources to users regardless of their physical position.
Website Pageviews: Use of the Library's website grew about 5 percent in 2025, topping out at 1.111 million views. The Library changed website vendors in 2022 and has seen steady growth year-over-year as users find the design and layout more useful.

Collections and Resource Management

Key Takeaways: Collections and Resource Management

Interlibrary Loan: Interlibrary loan lending saw a 20 percent increase in 2025, largely due to the continued use of an automation process allowing Library staff to fulfill requests faster. That increase in fulfillment meant the state-wide algorithm directed more requests to Georgia Tech. Borrowing increased 118 percent in 2025 due to the implementation of Rapido, a simpler, more powerful system for consortial loaning.
E-Resources Problems Resolved: The number of e‑resource issues identified and successfully resolved increased slightly, from 90 in 2024 to 95 in 2025.
GT Author Books Added: The Library increased its purchases of Georgia Tech Authors slightly, adding three more authors in 2025 than 2024.
E-Resources Added: The Library clearly saw a tremendous amount of growth in this area, adding nearly 325 percent more e-resources in 2025 than the previous year. This number is closely tied to the following insight about course reserves, as those purchases contribute heavily to this growth.
Course Reserves Materials Purchased: Here is where the Library's Technical Services Department saw its greatest impact, continuing its trend of purchasing more than 80 percent more materials than the previous year. These purchases are a result of the Library's efforts to tie course readings (which students previously had to purchase) to existing Library collections using Leganto software. Since implementation, this effort resulted in a savings of nearly $400,000 -- about $170 per student.
Pro-Active Course Reserves Purchased: As part of its educational affordability efforts, the Library purchased about 55 percent more course reserves items after studying syllabi of classes participating in the program.

Wellness Room Usage

Key Takeaways: Wellness Room Usage

Overall Wellness Room Usage: Overall usage dipped slightly in 2025, from just over 1,000 uses to slightly less than 950, an 11 percent decrease.
A closer look | Wellness Room usage by day: Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the most popular days for users of the Wellness Room since it launched in 2021.
A closer look | Wellness Room usage by hour: Usage typically peaks in the middle of the day, which is in line with overall occupancy in the Library.

Gate Count and Room Reservations

Key Takeaways: Gate Count and Room Reservations

Gate Count for Price Gilbert Memorial Library, Crosland Tower and Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons: In 2025, Price Gilbert and Crosland saw more 1.727 million visits, while Clough tallied more than 1.916 million visits. These numbers are down slightly from the year before, with both about 5 percent lower.
Public Programming and Event Coordination in Price Gilbert, Crosland and Clough: 2025 saw a 15 percent increase in overall event coordination, a strong indicator of the Library's commitment to engaging and fun programming for the campus community
Instant Room Reservations in the Library and Clough: In 2025, the Library and Clough saw nearly 58,000 separate bookings from 11,639, an 8 percent decrease from 2024. This drop is due to the Library requiring check-ins within 10 minutes of the scheduled room reservation, which meant that users who "saved" a room were not counted for the first time.

Media Scholarship Events

Media Arts Day 2025

In January, Library and Interdisciplinary Media Arts Center (IMA) brought Media Arts Day 2025 to campus, featuring events throughout the day in various locations throughout the Library.

“This event is a celebration of new ways of learning and creating knowledge born from the intersection of arts and technology,” said Yanni Loukissas, director of IMA. “It marries the Library’s reputation as a space for experimentation, connection, and communication with the School of Literature, Media and Communication’s work defining new models of intellectual inquiry and practice.”

Media Arts Day 2025 was co-sponsored by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

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Love Data Week 2025

In February, The Library brought campus Love Data Week, an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine's day. Universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals host and participate in data-related events and activities.

The 2025 theme is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?”

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Did you know?

In 2025 the Georgia Tech Library saved faculty and staff more than $2.8 in author publishing costs through its read and publish agreements covering 858 articles in the Association for Computing Machinery, American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and more. Since 2022, when the program started, the Library has saved campus nearly $5.5 million, with nearly 1,980 articles covered by the agreements.

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2025 Spotlight: Library launches expert team model

In July 2025, the Georgia Tech Library announced a shift in how Librarians interact with students, faculty and staff: a team model for subject matter experts to improve service across the Institute.

To find your librarian team, visit our experts page or e-mail us at academicengagement@library.gatech.edu.

“We’re proud to roll out this new model to campus,” said August Englesman, Head of Academic Engagement at the Georgia Tech Library. “In this past, individual librarians served as liaisons for each of the Institute’s schools. Tech’s recent growth requires a new, more strategic model ensuring researchers find the best resources for their work”

Each Georgia Tech college now has in place a team of librarians ready to help with everything from finding an article to navigating open access publishing. This new team model for research assistance makes it easier to connect, get research help, and utilize Library resources.

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Our Story

Below you will find highlights from the Georgia Tech Library's incredibly successful year. We start with a look at how we expanded services and resources in 2025, then introduce you to a few of our media scholarship partners. Next we look at our public programming efforts over the last year, then elaborate on our faculty and staff achievements and publications. We conclude with Archives, including a look back at the exhibits held this year. And don't forget to check out our signature event, Defining Skylines: John Portman and the Architectural Evolution of Downtown Atlanta, above.

Updating Services & Spaces: retroTECH and Gadgets

In February, the Library's retroTECH Lab, located on the third floor of Crosland Tower, began open lab hours anew. Throughout the year it was open 10 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday. retroTECH allows faculty, staff and students to interact with vintage technologies, from slide rules to Sega Genesis, as well as emulations of retro platforms on modern devices.

Lost in the Stacks Podcast | The Past in the Future

Later that year, in July, the Library moved its popular Gadgets service from Crosland Tower's third floor to Grove Level of Price Gilbert. The service had grown so much it needed more space, and a service point closer to INFODesk.

Lost in the Stacks Podcast | The Gadgets in the Library

How to Use Your Georgia Tech Library

Throughout 2025, Library experts produced videos explaining popular services, spaces and resources, including How to Print at the Library, How to Read Articles like a Researcher, Securing Funding, and more.

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Did you know?

The Georgia Tech Library’s Instant Gadgets service grew nearly 64 percent in 2025, circulating nearly 33,000 items like chargers, headphones, calculators, laptops. That's a savings of $82,500 on instant reservation items alone.

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A Focus on Growing Library Resources

Transformative Agreements

In April, the Georgia Tech Library announced it entered into transformative agreements with three new publishing partners for 2025:

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Elsevier (includes hybrid, open access journals only)

SPIE Publications

In 2024, 30 percent of Georgia Tech's open access publishing was covered under Library-brokered transformative agreements, saving authors more than $1.6 million in author and publisher costs.

Material ConneXion

In May, the Library unveiled the Materials Library, a curated collection of cutting-edge materials and sustainable solutions from Material ConneXion.

Located on the second floor of Crosland Tower adjacent to the Second Floor Classroom, the Materials Library is a physical and digital database. Each sample has a QR code that connects to the online database where you can explore thousands of additional materials.

Zotero

The Georgia Tech Library announced in March it recently purchased a campus-wide unlimited online storage plan for Zotero, the powerful bibliographic management tool used to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.

To take advantage of this new option, simply use your @gatech.edu e-mail address when logging onto Zotero.org.

If you are using Zotero without your Georgia Tech email address and would like to take advantage of the unlimited storage, simply add your institutional address to your account while logged in at https://www.zotero.org/settings/email.

AJC & NY Times

With advocacy from the Undergraduate Student Government Association, in October the Library added campus-wide access to the Atlanta Journal Constitution for students, faculty and staff. The next month, in support of campus well-being the Library announced upgrades to the New York Times subscription. The Library-provided campus license now includes access to Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic.

Interlibrary Loan

In Late August the Georgia Tech Library implemented a faster, easier way to request books, articles, and other materials from providers across the country through its interlibrary loan service.

Users can now place requests directly from the catalog and receive electronic items in your library account. The Library has also simplified the catalog search experience.

The default option, GT Library and beyond, lets you search Georgia Tech’s collections plus partner libraries across Georgia and the United States. And have no fear: You can also choose GT Library ONLY to focus just on Tech’s collections, including theses and dissertations.

Questions? Visit our Ask Us! page. We’re here to help.

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Affordable Learning & OER

In July, the Library launched a low-cost educational resource primer for faculty and staff.

Affordable learning and open educational resources (OER) are an important part of teaching at Georgia Tech, as course materials can add hundreds of dollars to a student’s yearly costs. Choosing low or no-cost options can reduce financial stress, increase access, and improve engagement.

In the past, faculty would place print monographs and course packs on hold for students in their classes as part of the course reserves system. In the digital age however, the range of Library services has expanded to include e-books, journals, streaming media, and tutorials. As such, the Library seeks to support everyone and works to reduce textbook costs by providing best quality materials for faculty and students.

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2025 Spotlight

Author features throughout the year

In February, faculty and staff were invited to join the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and the Library for the fourth annual Georgia Tech Authors Celebration.

The event celebrated Georgia Tech book publications, showcasing the range and depth of scholarship on our campus with those who published books between January 2023 and December 2024.

In October, the Library held its first Read & Publish Reception. This special event honored Georgia Tech faculty who leveraged the Library's new Read & Publish agreements to make their scholarly work freely accessible to the global research community.

Read & Publish agreements are innovative licensing models that combine the traditional subscription fee (read fee) with the Author Publishing Charges/Book Publishing Charges (APC/BPC) necessary to make publications Open Access. This dual approach not only ensures that Georgia Tech faculty can access a vast array of research materials, it also allows them to publish their own work Open Access without incurring additional costs.

Did you know?

In 2025, the Library’s partnership with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering for myDAQs and Mbed kit loans saved students more than $750,000.

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Dean Sharp reappointed, serves multiple boards

Leslie Sharp Reappointed as Dean of Libraries at Georgia Tech

Following a comprehensive administrative review, in July Leslie Sharp was reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of Libraries at Georgia Tech.

The decision followed a review process outlined in the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook, which includes feedback from faculty, staff, students, and external library colleagues and an evaluation of Sharp’s performance and accomplishments during her term.

Sharp, who has served as dean of Libraries since July 1, 2020, has played a pivotal role in advancing Georgia Tech’s mission of supporting research, teaching, and learning across the Institute. Under her leadership, the Library has leveraged partnerships and resources to expand its collections. In one of its most effective initiatives, the Library partnered with units to make more affordable learning resources available for students.

“Leslie Sharp’s vision and dedication have strengthened the Georgia Tech Library’s role as a central hub for knowledge, innovation, and academic support for our entire community,” said Karie Davis-Nozemack, associate provost and incoming interim provost. “She brings a deep spirit of collaboration to her leadership, because she believes that the Library should serve and inspire every member of the Georgia Tech community — students, faculty, and staff alike. I am delighted that the Institute will continue to benefit from her impact for another term.”

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Dean Leslie Sharp named NISO board member

At its 2025 Annual Meeting May 19-21, Georgia Tech Library Dean Leslie Sharp was named Board President for the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). Sharp previously served as vice-president in 2024 and 2025 and follows Georgia State Dean of Libraries Jeff Steely in the position.

A little over a month later, Sharp was also named a board member for The National Information Standards Organization (NISO). She will serve in the role until June 30, 2028.

"I’m proud to represent Georgia Tech, and academic libraries, on the board of NISO,” said Sharp. “Our experts routinely engage in NISO’s cutting-edge education program of webinars, virtual conferences and training series, so I’m proud to contribute to their important and vital work.”

Did you know?

The Library’s Print Studio produced nearly 15,000 student, faculty and staff posters in 2025 at a cost savings of more than $167,000. That’s a 12 percent increase in posters produced over last year and a more than 60 percent increase over 2022.

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2025 Spotlight: Partners in Media Scholarship

Meet our partners: Graphics in Medicine VIP

In this video, you'll learn about the Graphics in Medicine Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) team, which showed off their work in the Library's Third Floor Crosland Data Visualization Studio in late April. The group is planned a full exhibit in the Interactive Media Zone in Fall 2025.

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In this video, you'll meet some of the partners who used the Library's Grove Level Interactive Media Zone for exhibits in Spring semester 2025. The work includes the Institute-wide Quality Enhancement Plan and student projects covering a range of topics.

Lost in the Stacks Podcast | Interacting with Media

In this video, you'll meet some of the partners who used the Library's Media Bridge for projects in Spring semester 2025. The work includes a graduate thesis project to lower the barrier for student participation on the bridge, to interactive art, to AI visualizations of popular movie dialogue.

Lost in the Stacks Podcast | Under the Media Bridge

Did you know?

By using Reading Lists from Leganto for course reserves (a software tool that allows instructors to tie their course-required materials to existing Library collections), faculty saved students nearly $205,000 in 2025 -- about $170 per student.

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2025 Roundup: Promoting Programming

Game Days and Long Now Lectures

In 2025, the Library took advantage of the retroTECH Lab reopening for lab hours and held multiple game days and Long Now Series Lectures.

Game Days included opportunities for students to try out Mario Kart, Halo, Super Smash Brothers, and more. retroTECH’s Long Now Lecture Series is part of the Library's charge to create the future by exploring and preserving our technological pasts. Each month participants dip into the archive at longnow.org and find a talk that connects with retroTECH’s research concern -- how our lives shape technology, and are shaped by it, over time – and follow that with an open discussion guided by a Georgia Tech librarian, archivist, or faculty member.

Gadgets Petting Zoo

In September, the Library held its first Gadgets Petting Zoo. Unfortunately, there were not any barnyard animals. However, it was a hands-on showcase of the wide range of gadgets available for checkout through the Library, including:

Instant Gadgets: Available for same-day checkout at the INFODesk, these include laptops, accessibility devices, and other essential tools; and
Reservation Gadgets: Requiring an online request at least 48 hours in advance, these include high-quality audio and video equipment for your media projects.

Trick or Treat at Clough

In October, the Library, in collaboration with the Clough partners -- those campus units housed in Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, held the first Trick or Treat at Clough event.

Students went door-to-door at the various services and offices at Clough to learn what each unit does, what they offer, and how jackets can benefit from the help they give. Participants who visited every unit on the card received a free t-shirt provided by the Office Of Undergraduate Education and Student Success.

Did you know?

Library-led instruction offerings increased about 63 percent in 2025, which attendance in those classes and workshops up 79 percent. Nearly 6,800 students took part in these courses, or about 13 percent of the entire student population.

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Faculty & Staff Achievements

Throughout 2025 the Library's faculty and staff received numerous awards and recognitions from the Institute, national media organizations and library associations. Below you'll find a few of the notable examples.

Technical Services Team awarded by Institute

In April, the Technical Services Team of Carolyn Gill, Glenna Barney, Will Winchester, Nicholas Cooper-Kedrick, Teresa Latham, and Rick Goodin received the Spirit of GT Award.

“I can’t think of a better example for the Spirit of GT Award than Technical Services,” said Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Access Karen Glover. “I’m so very proud of this team and ecstatic that they are getting the recognition they deserve.”

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Vanesa Evers named Institutional Repository Librarian

In February the Library welcomed Institutional Repository Librarian Vanesa Evers to the team.

They will support the growth and visibility of the institutional repository (the electronic home of all Tech-produced scholarship) while advancing the Library's mission to preserve and promote the scholarly and creative work of our campus community.

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Archivists earn Digital Archives Specialist certificates

In March, Digital Projects Coordinator Katie Gentilello earned the Digital Archives Specialist certificate from the Society of American Archivists (SAA). She was joined in May by Digital Curation Archivist Cliff Landis.

“We couldn’t be prouder of Katie and Cliff for showing their commitment to the archives profession, and their commitment to personal achievement and professional development,” said Jody Thompson, Head of the Georgia Tech Archives.

Librarians receive promotions

In July, the Library announced three of its faculty members received promotions.

Head of Academic Engagement August Englesman and Assessment Librarian Matt Frizzell both moved from Librarian II classifications to Librarian III. Emerging Technologies Librarian Alison Valk was promoted to Librarian IV, the highest classification available.

“We’re extremely proud of our incredible faculty here at the Georgia Tech Library,” said Dean Leslie Sharp. “Through their hard work, dedication and commitment to scholarship, these longtime librarians exemplify the best of what this institution brings to students, faculty and staff daily.”

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Library employees honored at awards event

In late May the Library held its annual awards ceremony honoring the employees whose hard work makes the 24-hour operation possible.

Head of Academic Engagement August Englesman won the Frances Kaiser Faculty Award for their exemplary leadership and demonstrated success both as a supervisor and as an advocate for Academic Engagement projects and people.

Technical Services Associate I Nicholas Cooper-Kedrick, Technical Services Associate Lead Glenna Barney, and Public Services Associate II Randall James won Price’s Pride staff awards for innovations in the collections management, Interlibrary Loan and front-line customer service.

Finally, AV/IT Support Professional Senior Quincy Thomas won the Dean’s Choice award for his work supporting public programming, events, teaching and visiting scholars.

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Did you know?

In 2025, students, faculty, and staff spent nearly 1,800 hours in the Library's audio and video studios. That's a savings of about $88,580 in a single year.

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2025 Publications

Alex Brinson and Alex McGee
“Hidden History: Georgia Tech Archivists Share the Impact of Inclusive Description”
Archival Outlook
Lost in the Stacks Podcast | The Power of Good Description

Presley Dyer
"Participatory Community Archiving to Preserve and Sustain North Georgia Appalachia’s Language, Literacy Practices, and Histories”
Georgia Library Quarterly
Lost in the Stacks Podcast | On Beyond Cataloging

Justin Ellis and John Mack Freeman
"The Expert Behind the Desk: Collaborative Cross-Training in Unlocking Potential in Frontline Academic Library Staff"
Journal of Library Administration

Vanesa Evers
“Empowering Knowledge: Sustaining a Library Publishing Program at a Consortial HBCU”
ACRL chapter

Karen Glover and Emy Decker
"Fifteen Years of Insights: Leveraging Access Services Conference Themes to Inform LIS Education"
Journal of Library Resource Sharing

Aisha Johnson and John Mack Freeman
Guest Editor and Contributor
The Political Librarian

Cliff Landis
“Archiving without Access is Hoarding: Global Approaches to Improving Access to Born Digital Archives”
CILIP Focus on International Library and Information Work

Jordan Moore
“Going around in Circles: Interrogating Librarians’ Spheres of Concern, Influence, and Control”
In the Library with a Lead Pipe

Martin Patrick, Danielle Evans, Stephanie Galipeau, Nicholas Cooper-Kedrick and Hyun Chu Kim
“Swank vs. Kanopy: A Comparison for Course Reserves use at Georgia Tech”
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

Alison Reynolds and Chloe Gerson
“Worksheets and Assessment: Matching Learning Objectives to Learning Outcomes"
Archives & Primary Source Handbook

Did you know?

Lost in the Stacks, the original research library rock n' roll radio show, created 45 episodes in 2025 that were downloaded 23,131 times.

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How to Train Your Algorithm

In April and May, Archives hosted “How to Train your Algorithm,” a new exhibit from Christina Shivers, the 2023 Ventulett NEXT Fellow. It was on display in Crosland Tower’s second floor.

“This exhibit explores AI and its relationship to the development of ecologically experimental material and craft practices in architecture,” Shivers explained. “I produced it as part of my Ventulett NEXT Fellowship in the School of Architecture.”

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Rare Book Events

Archives held rare book spotlights in February and August.

The first, Theater of Machines, included a presentation about the creation and historical context in which these books were distributed followed by an invitation for attendees to explore the books from the Georgia Tech Library’s Archives and Special Collections.

The second, an open house, allowed visitors to view a selection of the newest acquisitions in rare books, science fiction, and university archives from the Library’s Archives and Special Collections department.

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A History of Calculation

In September, Archives installed a new exhibit in the Archives Reading Room, located on Crosland Tower's first floor. Crunching the Numbers: The History of Calculation included manual calculators from abacuses to first-generation Texas Instruments digital models.

New Archival Digital Collections

Archives and Special Collections reorganizes

In its continuing effort to better serve Georgia Tech and the campus community, in August the Library’s Archives and Special Collections announced a new leadership team.

Jody Thompson is now Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation, and Alex McGee is Head of Archives and Special Collections. Previously Thompson was Head of Archives and McGee was University Archivist.

“We’re thrilled to announce this exciting change to campus,” said Library Dean Leslie Sharp. “Jody and Alex bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our Archives, ensuring we continue to collect and preserve unique historical materials to inspire new creations, advance knowledge, and encourage innovation in service towards the public interest.”

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Previous Years

2024 Impact Report