Public Information Network for Electronic Services

Public Information Network for Electronic Services
Location	Georgia, USA
Established	1999
Branches	283
Collection
Size	10,598,805 (2016)[1]
Access and use
Access requirements	Participating library system
Circulation	17,264,835 (2016)[1]
Members	1,860,321 (2016)[1]
Other information
Budget	$1.1 million[2]
Director	Elizabeth McKinney
Employees	8
Website	https://pines.georgialibraries.org/

The Public Information Network for Electronic Services (or PINES) is the nearly statewide library consortium and its online library catalog of the Georgia Public Library Service. By June 2017, the catalog consisted of books from 284 library facilities in 143 counties across the U.S. state of Georgia with a collection size of 10.6 million items, all of which are searchable by anyone with a PINES library card which can be obtained free of charge from any PINES-participating library.^[3]

The PINES system effectively turns most of the state of Georgia into one huge library. PINES cardholders are able to request an interlibrary loan from any affiliated library, and the single statewide library card grants access to the hundreds of branches associated with the service. PINES also manages the booking of rooms, the use of remote self-check machines, allows automated search and retrieval, as well as supports RSS and Schema.org standards.^[4]

PINES developed the open-source software Evergreen, an integrated library system which it and other library consortia use to manage their online catalogs.