Library Basics

(Intended to supplement the "Library Website Scavenger Hunt" completed in class)

Which libraries allow you to check out books with your UWG ID?
• Obviously you can use it here at UWG.
• You can also get books from the other 35 University System of GA libraries sent here to you. You just search it, request the books, and the other library will send them here for you.
• You can also use your UWG ID in person at any of the USG libraries to check out
books

How many computers can students use in the library?
• There are over 50 computers on the main floor for you to use, and 24 more in the Mac Lab on the 3rd floor
• There are most computers scattered about on the 2nd and 3rd floors
• The Main Floor Library Classroom becomes an additional classroom during the
evenings and weekends.
• We have 50 laptops you can check out to use within the Ingram Library and
Starbucks

What equipment can you checkout to use in the library?
• Books your professor puts on reserve (kept behind the main Checkout Desk. You can use them in the library for a few hours. This way everyone can use the books instead of one student having them in his or her dorm for 3 weeks.)
• Laptops and scanners
• White board markers, erasers to use on our glass white board
• Group Study Rooms
• DVD players
• Flip Camera

How many books are in the library?
• More than half a million books!

How many periodicals (magazines, newspapers, journals) do we have access to?
• Over 68k periodicals and about 67k of those are online!
• From off-campus, you need a password to access our subscriptions
• The password changes each semester and you get it from inside your Library
Account

When can you get research help in the library?
• Reference student assistants are at two different information desks on the main
floor whenever the building is open
• You can get drop-in help from a Reference Librarian by stopping at the Reference
Desk from Mon-Thurs 11-5
• You can get help 24/7 365 days a year (including holidays) through our chat
reference service (westga.edu/library/chat)
• You can GoPro (westga.edu/library/gopro). This means you make an apt with a reference librarian to meet with you one-on-one to discuss your research.