Requesting for Pickup and Delivery
Book Requests
UGA students, faculty, and staff may place requests for circulating books owned by the UGA Libraries through the online catalog, GIL-Find.
Login to your library account to request a book and choose a pickup location. Users are limited to 10 open requests at one time. Once the requested 10 books are picked up, more can be requested. There is no limit on the total number of books that can requested.
Pickup locations include the Main Library, the McBay Science Library, along with the Curriculum Materials, Music, and Art Libraries on the UGA Athens campus. The Carnegie Library Learning Center on the UGA Health Sciences Campus in Athens is a pickup location, as well as UGA locations in Griffin, Gwinnett, and Tifton. You will be notified by email when requested items are available at the pickup location. Same-day pickup is not available for this service.
If a requested book cannot be found on the shelf, a search will be conducted for the item. If the book cannot be located during this search, the item will be marked 'missing' and the request will be cancelled. A cancellation notice will be sent by email notifying the patron of the cancellation.
Faculty Book Delivery
Faculty may request delivery of books, bound periodicals, and proceedings to their departments on the Athens campus, using our Faculty Delivery Form. This service is limited to 3 delivery requests per day. Please use a separate form for each item.
Items may be returned to any library on campus. There is also a return pickup service provided by the UGA Libraries' Mail and Delivery Support Services. To request pickup for returning items, please contact the Access Services Department at maincirc@uga.edu.
Electronic Document Delivery
Library staff will scan copies of journal articles from print journals, and chapters or papers from print books/proceedings. Use the request form for journal articles/book chapters. We can scan up to two chapters or articles from a single book or journal issue.The articles will be scanned as PDFs and sent via email. Please submit each article or chapter request separately. There is a limit of 60 pages per request.
While we make every effort to deliver material within 24 hours of receiving the request, certain circumstances such as availability, location of material, and volume of requests may result in a slightly longer wait for requested material. Please allow up to 3 business days for your request to be processed.
Articles/book chapters are provided for the purpose of private study or research. Any other use may require the permission of the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the requestor to comply with all applicable copyright laws. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright.
Services for Students, Faculty, and Staff at Remote Sites
Book Delivery
Students, faculty, and staff at UGA's agricultural and environmental and oceanographic research stations, please use our Remote Site Request Form - Books.
Students, faculty, and staff at the Tifton and Griffin sites can request books through the GIL-Find Catalog to have books delivered to the libraries at those sites (see Book Requests information above).
Articles/Chapters
Users at remote sites may request articles from print journals in the Main and Science Libraries using the request form for journal articles/book chapters. The articles will be scanned as pdfs and sent via email. Please submit each article or chapter request separately. There is a limit of 60 pages per request.
Delivery Service for Registered UGA Distance Learners
Distance Learning students may request articles from print journals in the Main and Science Libraries using the request form for journal articles/book chapters. The articles will be scanned as pdfs and sent via email. Please submit each article or chapter request separately. There is a limit of 60 pages per request.
While we make every effort to deliver material within 24 hours of receiving the request, certain circumstances such as availability, location of material, and volume of requests may result in a slightly longer wait for requested material. Please allow up to 3 business days for your request to be processed.
See the Distance Learning Delivery Service page for more information, including about book delivery options.
Items Beyond UGA Libraries
If the book you want is not at UGA, search the GIL-Find Catalog to see if it is available at another University System of Georgia library and order it through our GIL Express service.
This service allows all eligible students, faculty and staff of the University of Georgia to search a single online catalog that includes the holdings of all USG libraries and request delivery of eligible circulating books to the location of your choice.
Books not available from any USG library and articles from material not owned by UGA should be requested through Interlibrary Loan. When requesting an item that is not in the UGA online catalog, please provide as much citation information as possible to ensure that the request is filled quickly and accurately.
Open Educational Resources - Free Textbooks
Open educational resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are either in the public domain, or published under open licenses, like Creative Commons. The materials can be used, reused, adapted, shared and modified according to specific needs. They can include textbooks, quizzes, assignments, instructional guides, test prep and more. Learn more about open textbooks below. Check the link for free textbooks and other educational resources: GALILEO Open Learning Materials.