Guest Blog: Two New Delivery Services for Distance Learners
Guest Blog: Two New Delivery Services for Distance Learners
By: Lynn Cahoon
Distance Learning Librarian
Library research can be challenging for students and faculty who are enrolled in or teaching distance learning or off-campus classes. Currently, the UGA Libraries Document Delivery Service supports these students and teachers by scanning and emailing print articles and book chapters that are held in UGA Libraries’ circulating collection.
We’re excited to announce that starting Summer Semester 2016, UGA Libraries will experiment with new, expanded delivery services! This pilot program will run from June 7, 2016 to December 13, 2016, and its results will be used to assess future extension of these services.
During the pilot program, the University of Georgia Libraries will mail print books owned by the UGA Libraries directly to your home if you are enrolled in UGA distance learning classes or in UGA graduate courses that have no on-campus meetings. You must also live outside the state of Georgia to be eligible for home delivery of UGA Libraries’ materials. However, you can receive deliveries of Interlibrary Loan materials borrowed from other libraries, whether you live in the state of Georgia or elsewhere in the United States.
To use these services, you must register each semester and complete the online document delivery form for each individual item. Services are only available to those currently registered in qualifying UGA courses. Learn more about library services for online students on the student services page of this website.
If you have any questions about document delivery services or any other library resource, please contact Lynn Cahoon at cahoonl@uga.edu or 706 542-3251 for assistance.