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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)
Update from the Executive Director
To read the latest issue of the FLVC Library Services Update, please click here.
Hello Everyone,
We do amazing work in academic libraries. From providing instant access to incredible collections of information and scholarly content to ensuring the availability of services that support and enhance all aspects of teaching and learning, libraries are at the core of the academic enterprise.
However, libraries have for years faced the challenge of finding ways to show meaningful connections between allof those resources and services and their impact on student success outcomes. Retention, persistence, course completion, and graduation rates are all crucial area sof concern for the academic institution. Libraries have positive impacts on all of those areas, but we struggle to find effective ways to measure and demonstrate those impacts.
Clearly demonstrating the impact of academic library resources and services is also becoming more important due to current and emerging changes in accreditation. When I began my library career, accreditation standards typically measured tangible library metrics such as numbers of seats available, numbers of journal subscriptions, gate counts, etc. Over the past decade or so, however, accreditors have shifted their standards to ask institutions to demonstrate explicitly not just how many resources they have, but how they make those resources accessible and available to students and faculty. Now, accreditation standards are shifting again, often removing explicit mention of libraries and information resources and services. These changes in accreditation will make it critical for libraries to be able to provide both quantitative and qualitative information and narratives that show direct, measurable linkages between library resources and services and student success outcomes.
How is your library approaching these issues? How can FLVC support this work? Be sure to read further in this issue of the FLVC Library Services Newsletter for information about libraries collaborating with FLVC to connect library resource usage data with institutional student success data. We’re very early in this work, but we’re already able to produce impressive results! FLVC will be delighted to work with all libraries to build on these projects
Here’s to an excellent spring for everyone!
Elijah
statewide service
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.
