The James Earl Carter Library of Georgia Southwestern University was designated a selective Federal Depository Library in 1966. As such, the library receives publications in hardcopy, microform, and electronic formats from most federal government agencies. The library currently owns more than 300,000 government publications that have been selected to serve the information needs of the students and faculty of the University as well as the citizens of the second U.S. Congressional district of Georgia. Government Information on the Internet is a useful guide to online resources that has been written focusing on the needs of the GSW community.
Most documents circulate unless they are periodicals or reference resources.
If members of the community who are not associated with the University wish to check out government publications, special arrangements can often be made through a reciprocal borrowers agreement with Lake Blackshear Regional Library.