Georgia Tech Library

Judge Sterling Price Gilbert donated a large sum of Coca-Cola stock to Georgia Tech with the stipulation that the proceeds be used to construct a new library. He later donated more funds to the cause. Ground was broken for the S. Price Gilbert Memorial Library on July 5, 1951, and the building was dedicated on November 21, 1953.{{cite web|url=http://philanthropy.gatech.edu/building/judge-s-price-gilbert-memorial-library|title=Philanthropy at Tech|website=Georgia Institute of Technology|access-date=3 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816170909/http://philanthropy.gatech.edu/building/judge-s-price-gilbert-memorial-library|archive-date=August 16, 2016|url-status=dead}} The Graduate Addition to the library was opened in 1969, and was renamed Crosland Tower in 1985.{{Cite web|url=https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/58508|title=History of the Georgia Tech Library, with Emphasis on the Crosland Era|last1=Li|first1=Lisha|last2=Altamirano|first2=Isabel|date=2017|access-date=July 20, 2018|last3=Finn|first3=Bette}}

Dorothy M. Crosland was the long-time head librarian; initially appointed as Assistant Librarian in 1925, she was promoted to Librarian in 1927 and Director of Libraries in 1953, a title she would hold until her retirement in 1971.{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/finding-aids/view?docId=ead/MS001-ead/MS001-ead.xml;query=;brand=default|title=Dorothy M. Crosland Papers|work=Archives & Records Management|publisher=Georgia Tech Library|access-date=2011-06-06}}{{cite web|url=http://www.libsci.sc.edu/histories/georgia/libraries/academic/georgiatech/GA_Tech.pdf|title=A History of the Georgia Tech Library |author2=Jean Price, Virginia Kinman |author=Ann Vidor |publisher=University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science |access-date=2011-06-06}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eieeuS6fvSUC&pg=PA108|title=Encyclopedia of library and information science, Volume 52|first=Allen|last=Kent|page=108|isbn=0-8247-2052-0|year=1993|publisher=CRC Press |access-date=2011-06-06}}

Paul M. Heffernan, then a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, was the lead designer on the S. Price Gilbert Library.{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/HefArchive/|title=Heffernan Design Archives|publisher=Georgia Tech Library|access-date=2011-11-10}}

In 2017 a large-scale renovation project began with Crosland Tower to modernize it, opening up the space inside and changing the veneer to more curtainwall instead of solid brick to allow more natural light into the building and upgrade the finishes & MEP systems. The Crosland project was finished prior to the start of the spring 2019 semester. Following its opening, a renovation project began on the S. Price Gilbert Library. The total renovation was completed in spring 2020, and the library opened in full for fall semester 2020.{{Cite web|title=Library re-opening FAQs {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/news/library-re-opening-faqs|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}

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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.{{cite web|url=https://intranet.library.gatech.edu/docs/2006factsheet.pdf |title="Empower. Enrich. Advance" (Library fact sheet) |publisher=Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology |access-date=2007-12-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110136/https://intranet.library.gatech.edu/docs/2006factsheet.pdf |archive-date=2008-05-28 }}

The Archives and Special Collections department preserves and provides access to the history of Georgia Tech,{{cite web |url=http://library.gatech.edu/archives |title=Georgia Tech Archives and Special Collections |access-date=2007-08-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520122932/http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/index.html |archive-date=2007-05-20 }} and includes over 4300 rare books emphasizing the history of science and technology, a 4000-volume science fiction collection,{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/focus/2011/03/03/archives-delve-into-global-tech-history/|title=Archives delve into global, Tech history|first=Alex|last=Kessler|work=The Technique|date=2011-03-03|access-date=2011-03-05}} photographic collections,{{cite web |url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/gtpc.html |title=Georgia Tech Photograph Collection |publisher=Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management |access-date=2007-08-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518144750/http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/gtpc.html |archive-date=2007-05-18 }} and approximately 1000 manuscript collections.

In 2015,{{cite web|url=http://renewal.library.gatech.edu/improved-services-gt|title=Improved Services for Georgia Tech Users|access-date=2014-12-17}} the library moved 99% of its print collections to an off-site service center as part of a partnership with Emory University.{{cite web|url=http://renewal.library.gatech.edu/library-service-center-emory-university-and-georgia-tech |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141217190031/http://renewal.library.gatech.edu/library-service-center-emory-university-and-georgia-tech |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-12-17 |title=Library Service Center of Emory University and Georgia Tech |access-date=2014-12-17 }} This Library Service Center was opened and dedicated in 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/03/17/emory-georgia-tech-dedicate-joint-library-service-center|title=Emory, Georgia Tech Dedicate Joint Library Service Center|last=Wallace|first=Lance|date=2016-03-17|work=Georgia Tech News|access-date=2019-03-18}} Plans to move the "core collection" of roughly 30,000 volumes representing the fields of study offered at Georgia Tech back into the building were delayed due to Covid-19.{{Cite web|title=Library re-opening FAQs {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/news/library-re-opening-faqs|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}

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Upon completion of the renovations in fall 2020, the Georgia Tech Library brought students a range of new services and spaces. These include:

• Collaborative and quiet study spaces throughout the building, including reading rooms on the Grove Level and sixth and seventh floors of Crosland Tower, and first and third floors of Price Gilbert.{{Cite web|title=Collaborative & Quiet Study Spaces {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/study-spaces|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}
• The Science Fiction Lounge{{Cite web|title=Science Fiction Lounge {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/scifi-lounge|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}} on the first floor of Crosland Tower featuring circulating items from the Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection.
• The Archives Reading Room on the first floor of Crosland Tower.{{Cite web|title=Archives Reading Room {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/archives-reading-room|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}
• The Innovation and Ideation Studio on the second floor of Crosland Tower,{{Cite web|title=Innovation & Ideation Studio {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/innovation-ideation|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}} which includes a Library classroom.{{Cite web|title=Library Classrooms {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/classrooms|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}
• The Media Scholarship Commons on the third floor of Price Gilbert.{{Cite web|title=Media Scholarship Commons {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/multimedia-studio|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}
• The Data Visualization Studio{{Cite web|title=Data Visualization Lab {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/vizlab|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}} and retroTECH lab{{Cite web|title=retroTECH {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/retrotech|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}} on the third floor of Crosland Tower.
• The Faculty Research Zone, including a Teaching Studio, on fourth floor of Price Gilbert.{{Cite web|title=Faculty Research Zone {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/faculty-research-zone|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}
• The Graduate Student Community on the sixth floor of Crosland Tower.{{Cite web|title=Graduate Student Community {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/grad-community|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}
• Computing clusters in both buildings and Clough.{{Cite web|title=Computers & Printing {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/computing|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}}

In addition to the new spaces, the Georgia Tech Library offers a hundreds of events, classes, lectures and workshops yearly for students, faculty and the campus community.{{Cite web|title=Classes & Events {{!}} Georgia Tech Library|url=https://library.gatech.edu/events|access-date=2020-09-16|website=library.gatech.edu}} All are free and serve to supplement the Institute's curriculum.

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• [http://www.library.gatech.edu/ Official website]
• [http://smartech.gatech.edu/ SMARTech]
• [http://hdl.handle.net/1853/8745 A History of the Georgia Tech Library]

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