To assist Georgia Southern faculty and students better use Zach S. Henderson Library, a Library Virtual Tour is now available from the Internet platform.  Distance learning students will be able to view library interior design and layout via the Internet platform at: http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/libvtour.html.

The ribbon cutting hosted on January 21, 2009 by President Bruce Grube culminated a major capital project that began in the summer of 2004. The $22.75 million expansion/renovation added 101,000 square feet to the new Zach S. Henderson Library building, which now has more than 1,900 seats and 29 group study rooms available.

In addition to more than 600,000 books and bound periodicals, 890,000 microfilm units, almost 750,000 government documents, and more than 46,000 electronic journals, new Zach S. Henderson Library offers more than 300 hard wired computer workstations and wireless access is available throughout the library building.

A new Learning Commons is build to offer enhanced interactive learning environments for Georgia Southern students and local community users.  With more installed double-screen computer workstations, scanners, color printers, CD/DVD burners, and new computer software, such as Microsoft Office Suite 2007, students now will be able to design and develop their own projects in new multimedia environments.

Also, the Automated Retrieval Collection (ARC), a new computer-controlled automatic warehouse system which can house a collection of more than two million library items, is currently capable of storing 800,000 items in its 5,848 separate bins that are stacked 45 feet high.

Welcome to your brand new distance learning weblog, which is launched by Zach S. Henderson Library of Georgia Southern University .

This weblog is designed and developed to promote our and social networking connections with faculty and students who are involved with distance learning programs offered by Georgia Southern University.  To improve learning effectiveness of distance learning students, this weblog will also focus on fostering skills of critical thinking , decision making, and problem solving in today’s networked information world.

With the prosperity of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW), I believe that this weblog will become a new information portal to connect Georgia Southern students and faculty.  No matter where you are located, we are doing our best to make sure that you will be able to access and obtain academic and scholarly information resources and services via the cyber space.

Thank you so much for your visiting our distance learning weblog!