Nov 05, 2024  
University Handbook 2024- 2025 
    
University Handbook 2024- 2025

4.1 - Library


The Kennesaw State University Libraries are composed of the Sturgis Library, the Johnson Library, and the Library Repository. The University Libraries are designed to meet the teaching, learning, and research needs of the greater University community. Both libraries are available to all KSU students and faculty in addition to having specific resources at the respective locations. The KSU libraries information, learning services, and programs are defined on a single library website and accessed electronically through the campus web site and the Galileo Interconnected Libraries (GIL) portal.

In this endeavor, the University Libraries have acquired in excess of 1,021,343 print and electronic books. Approximately 70 percent of the Kennesaw State University Libraries’ monograph collection is available in electronic form. The University Libraries also support databases in all academic disciplines taught at Kennesaw State. The University Libraries use a discovery service and vendor supplied AI service that enables students and faculty to search across these multiple databases, the University Libraries catalog, and the Digital Commons-all in one search effort. These discovery layers increase searching effectiveness and make it easier to find content in different formats, print or digital.

Other collections that are fully online-or approaching fully online-format in full text/image/sound types are available to faculty and enrolled students at all times via login with a KSU netID, regardless of user location. These collections include:

  • 103,549 e-journal titles
  • 767,935 e-books
  • 22,500,000 art and general images
  • 14,000 Federal Serial Sets (approximately 9.7 million pages)
  • 62,000 federal maps
  • 1,300,000 music scores
  • 10,000,000 audio recordings
  • 70,000 video titles
  • 90 collections of datasets representing over 12,000,000 data points

 

The website address for the Kennesaw State University Libraries is https://library.kennesaw.edu/.