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.

In 1998 a white paper was created exploring the feasibility of a statewide public library card for Georgia.

[6] Looking to complete the project before the year 2000, on April 8, 1999, the initial contract to develop the ILS was awarded to KPMG partnered with the SIRSI Corporation and Sun Microsystems.

For the next two years other libraries saw the success of PINES, and rather than replace their outdated ILS with a new independent one, requested to join the statewide system.

In February 2018, the Live Oak Public Libraries of the Savannah metropolitan area joined the PINES consortium.