Georgia Public Library Service: Difference between revisions

| location = 1800 Century Place<br> Suite 150<br> [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia]], United States

The '''Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS)''' is the [[Government agency|state agency]] for libraries in the U.S. State of [[Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia]] and a unit of the [[University System of Georgia]]. The service was initially founded in 1996 after the inception of the [[Library Services and Technology Act]] (LSTA), and in July 2000 moved from the [[Technical College System of Georgia|Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education (DTAE)]] to the [[Georgia Board of Regents]] and University System of Georgia.<ref name="5year">{{cite news|last1=Veatch|first1=Lamar|title=Library Services & Technology Act Five-Year Plan for Georgia’s Libraries 2008 to 2012|url=http://www.georgialibraries.org/lib/lsta/five-yr/GPLS_LSTA-2008-12.pdf|accessdate=22 June 2017|publisher=Georgia Public Library Service|date=July 9, 2007}}</ref> [[Julie Walker (librarian)|Julie Walker]] is the current State Librarian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.georgialibraries.org/gpls/staff/staff_table.php|title=GPLS Staff Directory|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sils.unc.edu/news/2014/julie-white-walker|title=SILS Alumna, Julie Walker, Named State Librarian of Georgia|date=May 9, 2014|publisher=School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref>