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Each year, FLVC publishes an Annual Report describing activities, resources, services, and outcomes from the previous year. The 2023-2024 FLVC Annual Report was recently released. You can find it, along with Annual Reports from previous years, here.

I’d like to provide everyone with some highlights from the 2023-2024 Annual Report. In FY 2023-24, FLVC's centralized, shared services model delivered over $41.3 million in savings for the state of Florida. That’s an incredible service to the citizens of our state! Here's an overview of those numbers that gives a better picture of how FLVC provided value to Florida’s public colleges and universities in the previous year:

Library Electronic Resources:

• Statewide Collection - Cost avoidance of $15.1 million
• From January to December 2023, students, faculty, and staff across Florida’s public colleges and universities performed 19.6 million searches, engaged in 13.5 million item investigations, and downloaded 5 million full-text resources
• “Group Licensing” of library electronic resources saved libraries an additional $5.1 million

Shared Integrated Library System (ILS)

• Cost savings of $18.9 million
• Provides students, faculty, and staff across Florida’s public colleges and universities with access to both physical and digital items: more than 15.5 million books, 38 million e-resources, and 1.5 million digital archive items
• College and university students and faculty searched the ILS more than 23 million times in FY 2023-2024
• Library Users checked out more than 983,000 physical items

The collaboration between FLVC and Florida’s state colleges and universities achieves not only substantial cost savings and economies of scale but perhaps more importantly, it provides students at all 40 institutions with access to an incredible suite of information resources and services. I hope you’ll take some time to review the most recent FLVC Annual Report to better appreciate the scope and scale of the work of FLVC.

Elijah