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WELCOME TO FLvc Library services

FLVC Library Services provides information, training, tools, and other resources for library staff at the 28 state colleges and 12 public universities in Florida. Visitors are invited to learn more about the Library Services unit of the Florida Virtual Campus and the 150+ libraries at our state's 40 public institutions of higher education. A clickable map locates the colleges and universities that we serve and provides links to each institution's library website.

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Key Services

A shared catalog of library holdings of over 27 million physical items
A sophisticated integrated library system (ILS) used by libraries to manage their local collections
Collaboration with institutions to create and support Florida libraries' digital archives and collections
Management and maintenance of the statewide collection of e-resources
Negotiation and procurement of e-resources for individual institutions through a group licensing process
Training and consultation on FLVC products and services, in addition to convenient online webinars, instruction, and self-paced training
A centralized, statewide Help Desk providing user and technical support for all library services
A statewide community to promote and support textbook affordability and Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Update from the Executive Director

To read the latest issue of the FLVC Library Services Update, please click here.

Hello Everyone,

What’s on your reading list this summer?

Sure seems like this summer has been hotter than usual, which has made it a great time to stay inside and catch up on some professional reading!

We’re surrounded by plenty of reading these days about Artificial Intelligence and possible futures for libraries and academia in general. The possibilities seem limitless! I’m especially interested in ways that AI might be able to improve the search and discovery experience in academic libraries. “Harnessing the power of AI in academic libraries," a blog post from Ex Libris, discusses different ways that AI might be used in libraries. The article describes one library’s experience using the new Primo AI Research Assistant, with these results: “library search adoption increased from 6.75% to 11.63% and user satisfaction increased to 83.7%.” Those results sound promising, so I’m interested to see how future development use of this tool will proceed.

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Library Services provides information, training, tools, and other resources for library staff at the 28 state colleges and 12 public universities in Florida. Library Services is provided by the Florida Virtual Campus. FLVC is funded by the state of Florida, making all of the tools and resources available at no cost to students.

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