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Public Information Network for Electronic Services
LocationGeorgia, USA
Established1999
Branches283
Collection
Size10,598,805 (2016)[1]
Access and use
Access requirementsParticipating library system
Circulation17,264,835 (2016)[1]
Members1,860,321 (2016)[1]
Other information
Budget$1.1 million[2]
DirectorElizabeth McKinney
Employees8
Websitehttps://pines.georgialibraries.org/

The Public Information Network for Electronic Services (or PINES) is the statewide library consortium and its online library catalog of the Georgia Public Library Service. By June 2017, the catalog consisted of books from 284 library facilities in 143 counties across the U.S. state of Georgia with a collection size of 10.6 million items, all of which are searchable by anyone with a PINES library card which can be obtained free of charge from any PINES-participating library.[3]

The PINES system effectively turns most of the state of Georgia into one huge library. PINES cardholders are able to request that a copy of a specific book which is only available at a library out of town be shipped to their local library for them to check out - free of charge - all through the online catalog. In addition, PINES users can check out a book from one PINES-participating library and turn it into any other PINES-participating library without penalty. Another feature of the PINES network is that it allows members to place holds on items that they would like to check out from the library.

PINES developed the open-source software, called Evergreen, which it and other library consortia use to manage their online catalogs.

List of library systems within PINES

See also

There are several library systems in Georgia outside of the PINES system. Most of those are in the Atlanta metropolitan area, but the library systems of the Columbus metropolitan area and the Savannah metropolitan area are also outside of the PINES system.

References

  1. ^ a b c "PINES Consortium Data for 2016". PINES. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  2. ^ "PINES Fact Sheet 2016" (PDF). Georgia Public Library Service. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  3. ^ "PINES: Georgia's Statewide Library Card" (PDF). Georgia Public Library Service. 2010-02-15. Retrieved 11 November 2010.


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