Distance Learning Library Services

Announcements:

Get Current Library/GALILEO Password (you need this to use our databases off-campus)

Research Resources (find articles and books that you need to do class projects--
    links to all the GALILEO databases + the ones UWG has)

Using Other Libraries (when you live far away from UWG)

UWG Off-Campus Centers (Newnan, Dalton, & Georgia Highlands)

Good Links for Distance Education Students

Contact Us

Have Library Materials Sent to You

Tell Us If We Helped You, or Not

Policies

ACRL Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services

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LIBRARY SUPPORT SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR UWG DISTANCE EDUCATION STUDENTS*

• Individualized research consultation by phone, fax, e-mail or in person
• Direct delivery (by mail, UPS, fax, or courier) of articles and books from Ingram Library for distance education students who cannot reasonably access an adequate library in their area (Copying, 7 cents per page. Delivery: no charge for 1st Class Mail, fax or courier -- $18.00 charge if UPS Next Day Air delivery requested.)
• Assistance with connecting to online databases
• Borrowing privileges at any other USG library (with ID card or other photo ID, such as a driver's license)
  
• Borrowing of materials from non-USG libraries through InterLibrary Loan (at no charge to student) if UWG doesn't have what is needed
• Reserve reading materials requested by instructor, placed at a library convenient to the off-campus class site
• Free campus email accounts (note: these accounts are for email only; in order to best use GALILEO, you will need your own account with an Internet Service provider).

*A distance education student is defined as a State University of West Georgia (UWG) student who is either...

NOT coming to Carrollton for one of our courses here on campus, but currently enrolled in one or more of the classes taught by UWG at over twenty different sites in northwest Georgia, OR

is enrolled in a web-based class in which more than 50% of the class is conducted over the web--so that s/he is seldom required to come to campus.

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Distance Learning Library Services
Ingram Library
STATE UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
Carrollton GA 30118

E-Mail:  offcamp@westga.edu
Phone (local): (678) 839-6321
FAX: (678) 839-6511

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