Georgia Public Library Service

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| name = Georgia Public Library Service

| image = 1800 Century Pl, Atlanta, GA July 2019.jpg

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| caption = Building where GPLS is headquartered

| logo = File:Georgia_Public_Library_Service_logo.jpg

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| abbreviation = GPLS

| established = {{start date and age|1996|10|01}}

| type = Government agency

| headquarters =

| location = 2872 Woodcock Blvd
Suite 250
Atlanta, Georgia
United States

| coords = {{coord|33|52|36.6|N|84|16|19.9|W|display=inline,title}}

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| leader_title2 = State Librarian

| leader_name2 = Julie Walker

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| budget = $24.4 million{{cite news|last1=Warburton|first1=Bob|title=Georgia Tweaks State Funding Formula to Prioritize Librarians|url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/georgia-tweaks-state-funding-formula-to-prioritize-librarians|access-date=19 Mar 2023|publisher=Library Journal|date=February 3, 2014}}

| budget_year = 2015

| staff = 45

| website = {{URL|http://www.georgialibraries.org}}

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The Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) is the state agency for libraries in the U.S. State of Georgia and a unit of the University System of Georgia. The service was initially founded in 1996 after the inception of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), and in July 2000 moved from the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education (DTAE) to the Georgia Board of Regents and University System of Georgia.{{cite news|last1=Veatch|first1=Lamar|title=Library Services & Technology Act Five-Year Plan for Georgia's Libraries 2008 to 2012|url=http://www.georgialibraries.org/lib/lsta/five-yr/GPLS_LSTA-2008-12.pdf|access-date=19 Mar 2023|publisher=Georgia Public Library Service|date=July 9, 2007|archive-date=8 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708062830/http://www.georgialibraries.org/lib/lsta/five-yr/GPLS_LSTA-2008-12.pdf|url-status=dead}} Julie Walker is the current State Librarian.{{cite web|url=https://georgialibraries.org/gpls-staff-directory/|title=GPLS Staff Directory|access-date=19 Mar 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://sils.unc.edu/news/2014/julie-white-walker|title=SILS Alumna, Julie Walker, Named State Librarian of Georgia|date=May 9, 2014|publisher=School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|access-date=22 June 2017}}

Services

=PINES=

Established in 1999 the Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES) is the nearly statewide library consortium and its online library catalog of the Georgia Public Library Service. PINES effectively turns most of the state of Georgia into one huge library with 284 library facilities in 143 counties across the state.{{cite web|title=About PINES|url=https://pines.georgialibraries.org/about|website=Public Information Network for Electronic Services|access-date=22 June 2017}} PINES also developed Evergreen, an open-source integrated library system which is used worldwide in approximately 1,800 libraries to run their consortial catalogs.{{cite web|title=Evergreen Libraries by Country|url=https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries|website=Evergreen|access-date=22 June 2017}}

=GALILEO=

GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online (GALILEO), is an initiative the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to bring subscription-only database access to thousands of libraries throughout Georgia. Participating libraries in the state have access to hundreds of databases containing over 400,000 serial titles in full text and over 100,000 e-books. Other resources offered to the more than 2,000 organizations involved with GALILEO include encyclopedias, legal resources, business directories, and government publications.{{cite web|title=About the Initiative|url=http://about.galileo.usg.edu/|website=GALILEO|access-date=22 June 2017}}

GALILEO also runs the Digital Library of Georgia which is an online public collection of documents and media covering the history of Georgia. Large archives of newspapers are continuously digitized and added to this collection.{{cite news|title=Historic Savannah newspapers now online at UGA Libraries|url=http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-06-10/historic-savannah-newspapers-now-online-uga-libraries|access-date=22 June 2017|agency=Athens Banner-Herald|publisher=OnlineAthens|date=June 10, 2014}}

=GLS=

Georgia Library Services for the blind and print disabled (GLS) is an accessible library service in Georgia that provides reading materials to those who, due to disabilities, are unable to read standard print. This includes people with varying levels of visual acuity, those unable to turn pages, or any other individual certified by a medical doctor as having a reading disability.{{cite web|title=About GLS|url=https://gls.georgialibraries.org/about-gls/|website=Georgia Library Services for the blind and print disabled|access-date=25 March 2025}}