GSU books by mail

For enrolled GSU students and graduate students not taking classes at the main downtown campus. Regularly circulating University Library books delivered to your home address.

  

Process to Request Books:

  

Step 1

Registration is required each semester for books by mail service. To register, send an email message from your GSU email account to libhomedelivery@gsu.edu. Include the following information in the message:

Your Library ID

Your complete home mailing address

Your academic department

Your student status (undergraduate or graduate)

 

Registration messages from email addresses not ending in gsu.edu cannot be accepted.  You will receive a confirmation email, usually within one business day.

 

Step 2

After registration, requests are placed through your regular ILLiad account. Please note: only regularly circulating books from the main University Library can be shipped to your home. Please check GIL @ GSU for availability.

 

Requested books are delivered to your home address via UPS, with a UPS return label and a list of UPS return locations near you.

 

Books can also be returned to any University System of Georgia library.

  

Books are checked out to your GIL account on the day they are shipped. The original due date is six weeks from the date of shipment for undergraduates, or the end of the current semester for graduate students.

  

Two online renewals are available through your GIL account for books not requested by another patron.

  

There is no charge for this service, but regular recall and overdue policies and fine rates apply.  Books returned via UPS should be received at GSU by their due dates to avoid an overdue status. Books returned to another University System of Georgia library are removed from your GIL record on the date of return.

 

For questions about registering for the service, the status of requests, or UPS tracking, please contact us at libhomedelivery@langate.gsu.edu or (404) 413 - 2790.

 

For questions about due dates, renewals, recalls, and other circulation policies, contact the Access and Media Services Department at libcirc@langate.gsu.edu or (404) 413-2820.

 

 

Page updated on: September 25, 2009