Services for Faculty / Staff

Library Liaisons

Find your school and area of study liaison in our library liaison program guide.

Library Instruction for Classes

We offer a library instruction program tailored to course curricula and class assignments. Instruction classes are designed to teach information literacy skills and introduce students to effective use of print and electronic sources for research. We are happy to design a session tailored to your class assignments or work with you to develop assignments that incorporate information literacy skills and library resources. To request an instruction session, please use the library instruction booking form.

Course Reserve

Faculty may place print, DVD, and/or electronic materials on reserve for student use. To place materials on course reserve, please submit the Course Reserve Request Form electronically and drop off any physical items at the service desk located on the first floor of Kaufman Library. Remember to retain a fair use checklist for your records. For questions about course reserve or the submission of forms and materials, please see our course reserve guide or email @email.

Borrowing Information

GGC faculty and staff may check out up to 50 GGC items at a time. You must have your Claw Card or a valid, government-issued photo ID to check out items. Loan periods are as follows:

GGC Books: 90 days, 2 renewals
GGC Popular Fiction/Nonfiction Collection: 14 days, 1 renewal
GGC DVDs: 5 days, 1 renewal
GIL Express Books: 28 days, 2 renewals

GIL Express

Print material not available in the GGC collection may be requested from libraries at other USG institutions. Use the GIL-Find (library catalog) – USG to search for items and login to your library account to enable requests. Please note: articles cannot be requested through GIL Express – see Interlibrary Loan.

Interlibrary Loan

Materials not available at the Kaufman Library or through GIL Express may be requested through Interlibrary Loan. Please ensure an item is not available at GGC or within the USG system before submitting a request.

Materials/Resource Purchase Requests

To request resource purchases for our collection, please complete the materials request form.

We encourage faculty and staff members to notify the Kaufman Library when they have published material that they would like to see added to the collection. Please indicate in your request if an item is a faculty publication.

GGC Scholarly Digital Archive

Faculty and staff members are encouraged to submit their scholarly and creative work to our institutional repository, General Space. Students scholarly and creative work may also be submitted with faculty endorsement. Further inquiries may be directed to:

Catherine Downey, Head of Access Services and Information Commons, @email