University System of Georgia (GIL Express)
GIL Express: a resource sharing service offered at all libraries of the University System of Georgia (USG). This service provides access to all eligible circulating material at USG Libraries. GIL Express is available to all eligible Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff through remote requesting in the Georgia Tech catalog (Primo) as well as on-site (walk-up) service at any of the other 25 institutions in the USG.
Eligibility: All currently enrolled students and currently employed faculty and staff in good standing at Georgia Tech Library are eligible to use GIL Express.
Scope: Printed books (monographs) with the standard loan period.
Exceptions include, but are not limited to:
- Reserve materials
- Reference materials or other materials that do not circulate without special permission
- Materials housed in any special Collection
- Bound Materials
- Journal Articles
- Other material that the Owning Library designates as not eligible (popular/leisure fiction, and/or audiovisual materials, etc.)
Circulation Rules:
Loan Period: 90 day loan period for all patrons. You will receive an email notice shortly before the final due date.
Overdue Items: Since overdue fees are not charged, once a GIL Express book becomes overdue, your borrowing privileges are blocked. You will not be able to check out GIL Express books until the overdue book has been returned.
Recall Fines: If your book is recalled, you will need to return it by the new due date or risk recall-overdue fines. Each library can decide if it wants to charge recall fines. However, if recall fines are charged to GIL Express patrons, the fine is $2.50 a day for every day the book is late. Individual libraries have different policies about recalling materials.
Pickup locations (allow 2-3 business days for delivery)
For more information on the GIL Express service please visit: https://gil.usg.edu/gil_express/information/general-information
Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education (ARCHE)
Several other metro Atlanta college libraries allow in-person borrowing of their materials to students, faculty, and staff. You must use an InterLibrary Use card, obtained at the INFOdesk.
This card works at:
- Agnes Scott College
- Atlanta University Center
- Brenau University
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Emory University (branch libraries)
- Mercer University (Atlanta campus)
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- Oglethorpe University
- Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta
For more information on ARCHE please visit: http://www.atlantahighered.org/collaboration/library-collaboration/
Current students, faculty and staff must use Interlibrary Loan.
Use the service to obtain:
- Photocopies and loans of already published books, theses, articles, conference papers, etc. from other libraries or commercial vendors.
- Dissertations from other schools. Generally we try to obtain a loan of dissertations; however, we can purchase PDFs for a cost of $31. The library subsidizes $25; the patron pays $6. Please search the ProQuest Thesis Database to verify that we don't already have access to it. If you're unable to find, please submit an Interlibrary Loan request.
- Audio-visual materials. We will do our best to borrow these for you, but many libraries will not lend them or will lend them with restrictions.
Please note:
- We cannot borrow textbooks from other libraries.
- Books not yet published or recently published are often difficult to obtain.
- Most loans and photocopies are free. However, you would be responsible for any charges in excess of $25 per item.
- Delivery can range from a few days to several weeks, so allow enough time when requesting material. If you need something in a hurry, indicate a specific deadline. You would still be responsible for charges in excess of the $25 per item limit, even if the material is received after your deadline.
