The Marshall Hamilton Library actively supports the curriculum and mission of North Florida Community College by providing access to quality learning resources and instructional services. The library promotes the use of electronic resources and seeks to provide its users with the competencies necessary to pursue their goals and to become productive members of the community. The Marshall Hamilton Library serves both on campus and remote access users. The Library enriches not only the college community but also NFCC’s entire six-county district.
The Florida Coastal School of Law Library and Technology Center provides research and academic support for the law school.
The library provides information services and resources to support the educational program and priorities of Florida Christian College.
The Roux Library is an integral part of the intellectual life of the College. Roux Library's mission is to educate students in developing lifelong, critical, information-seeking skills by identifying and making information resources available to the college community, as well as providing instruction for access and use of its resources.
The mission of the M. M. Bennett Library of St. Petersburg College in its support of the philosophy and objectives of the College is to provide comprehensive library and information services to meet the curricular, research, cultural and recreational needs of the college community.
This email support group offers resource and idea sharing to help you find free resources for use by homeschoolers. You'll be able to network with other homeschooling parents to get free worksheets, printables, books, lesson plans, software, learning aids, and much more.
The purpose of the Libraries is to support the College's mission by providing dedicated service, effective instruction, and quality resources to the college community.
The Library at Florida State College (formerly Okaloosa-Walton College) offers educational and information services.
The Florida International University Libraries support the University's mission of teaching, research, and service by providing the means for the discovery and the pursuit of knowledge.
The library was constructed in 1971 and now contains over 106,000 volumes. Their collection is made up of a circulation collection, periodical collection, a non-print media center and a special collection. The library maintains an open-stack system on the first and second floors and the second floor also provides group study rooms, a computer lab, conference rooms and the special collections. The university archive is also located on the second floor and contains the works of the founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune as well as the university papers. The archival area is the repository for documentary, photographic, and other materials of historic value to the University. The Special Collection consist of books by and about blacks.
The collective mission of the Libraries of Miami Dade College is to provide access to collections, resources, services and facilities in support of the College’s purposes and educational programs for all students. In support of the educational and developmental role of the College, on behalf of students, the Libraries emphasize their instructional role in assisting faculty, staff and students to use collections, research tools and services effectively.
The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center is a general-service library, as well as a research facility and cultural center containing more than 75,000 books and related materials that focus on the experiences of people of African descent. Features include: literary collections of African-American authors, books and artifacts from Africa, the Caribbean, and North and South America, the Small Business Resource Center, a career information resource area, exhibits, seminars and special events, including The Pan African Bookfest, Jazzteenth and Kwanzaa, and resources for information on local history. The facility also features a 5,000 square foot museum.
The University of West Florida Libraries include the John C. Pace Library, the primary facility on the main campus in Pensacola, the Emerald Coast Library, located in Fort Walton Beach, and the Curriculum Materials Library and the Music Library, which are also located on the main campus. Housing more than 752,000 volumes, 1.2 million microforms, 5,100 serial subscriptions and providing access to thousands of full-text electronic journals, the library is also designated as a regional depository for publications of the United States government and the state of Florida.
The Library plays a crucial role in fulfilling the stated purpose of the University by supporting the curriculum with a broad, balanced collection of print, non-print, and electronic materials with particular emphases on specialties, graduate, and professional and pre-professional programs. The library further supports the University's statement of purpose by offering materials and professional information services for library research and for assisting students in developing the necessary skills to stay abreast with information in their field of study over a lifetime.
The University of South Florida’s Library System consists of four main campus libraries and two special libraries; the Shimberg Health Sciences Library, and the Louis de la Parte Mental Health Institute Library. USF’s main research library is centrally located on the Tampa Campus. Together, the USF Libraries provide access to more than 2 million volumes and an extensive collection of electronic resources including approximately 6,500 e-journal subscriptions and 500 aggregator databases containing another 13,000 unique e-journal titles, 48,000 e-books, and 150,000 digital images. In addition, students have access to over 65,000 audio/visual materials including videos, CDs, and DVDs. In addition to extensive electronic and print resources, the USF Libraries offer unique access to primary research materials through the Special Collections Departments. Specializations include Florida history and politics, American literature, medieval manuscripts, juvenile literature, rare books, and sheet music. Most special collections are available at the Tampa Library.
The University Library is a resource center where learning is experienced in solitude, in connection, in community. It serves as the University’s source of support and instruction in research and information literacy. Moreover, it partners with local, regional and international organizations to provide quality services, and to link the University with the Archdiocese and the larger community of learners. University faculty and library staff work together to develop and maintain a curricular-and-mission-centered collection. Furthermore, the Library exists as a repository for and gateway to the expanding wealth of electronic media, while housing and making available the continuing asset of traditional material.
The Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Library houses approximately 235,648 items on the Boca Raton campus. This collection includes books, periodicals, videos and microforms. The library is developing a collection of research databases that contain journal articles, documents and statistics. The databases in this collection are carefully evaluated and chosen for content that supports the curriculum. This collection contains more than 10,450 periodicals in print and electronic formats.
To provide a variety of learning centered resources, services, and facilities to support a diverse community; to encourage academic achievement, student success, and lifelong learning; and to enhance teaching excellence.
The mission of the Proctor Library is to support and enhance the instructional and educational mission of Flagler College by providing quality library materials, services and instruction, as well as a library facility that supports and enhances the College’s learning culture. The Library will provide efficient access to print, non-print and electronic resources and other technological library services and tools that support the curricular, research, and overall learning needs of the students, faculty and staff, and the Library will collaborate with faculty and others to help students and other users become information literate individuals who will be lifelong learners who can grow in their career and be productive citizens.
Edison State College has library locations in on the Charlotte Campus in Punta Gorda, the Collier Campus in Naples, and the Lee Campus in Ft. Myers.
In addition to more than 117,000 volumes, the Supreme Court Library houses many historical documents related to the development of the Florida Supreme Court.
The Evans Library supports the university mission of education research and service by providing academic information to meet the teaching, learning and research needs of Florida Tech faculty, students and other constituents by acquiring academic information resources and services providing instruction in the information process and assuring local and extended access to Florida Tech's unique information sources and to worldwide information resources.
In support of the college’s diverse curriculum and mission of meaningful learning and excellence in teaching, the FCCJ libraries are committed to providing library information services and resources in a variety of formats, serving as a central information resource for a diverse population of students, faculty, staff, and the community, offering a dynamic learning environment-both virtual and physical-with professional librarians to assist in information access and retrieval, and teaching and facilitating information literacy skills.
To provide a variety of learning centered resources, services, and facilities to support a diverse community; to encourage academic achievement, student success, and lifelong learning; and to enhance teaching excellence.
The PCC Libraries offer reference and research support, circulation of materials, periodicals, and other materials.
The libraries of the University of Florida consist of nine libraries. Seven are in the system known as the George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida and two (Health Sciences and Legal Information) are attached to their respective administrative units. All of the libraries serve all of the university's faculty and students, but each has a special mission to be the primary support of specific colleges and degree programs. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of research, scholars may find collections built in one library to serve a specific discipline or constituency to be of great importance to their own research in another discipline. It most likely will be necessary to use more than one library to discover all resources available at the University that are pertinent to a particular research interest.
Clearwater Christian College is a four-year, fundamental, Christian, liberal arts, co-educational college which is denominationally unaffiliated and dedicated to sound academic instruction while propagating the historic Christian faith. The College is committed to building a library collection which supports the courses and programs offered by the college, acquaints users with varying points of view, provides recreational reading, and enables students to develop special interests.
The Florida A&M University Libraries provides information, technology, resources and services to users whether on campus or across the globe.
HCC Libraries are teaching libraries that support and enrich the educational curriculum by providing resources, in all formats, that meet the academic needs of a diverse community.
The Library at South Florida Community College offers reference materials, circulating books, journals and magazines, college telecourse videotapes, and videotape and DVD collections.
The West Campus Library mission is to provide a variety of learning centered resources, services, and facilities to support a diverse community; to encourage academic achievement, student success, and lifelong learning; and to enhance teaching excellence.
The Division of Library and Information Services is the designated information resource provider for the Florida Legislature and all state agencies. It also coordinates and helps to fund activities of public libraries, provides a framework for statewide library initiatives, provides archival and records management services, and preserves, collects, and makes available the published and unpublished documentary history of the state. The Division provides many services to the general public. Services are provided in two physical locations: the Legislative Library (850-488-2812) in the Capitol, and at the R.A. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, two blocks due west of the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida (850-245-6600).
This academic library supports the American Intercontinental University.
The Library provides support services and research opportunities for the Broward College system.
The Archbold Biological Station Library collects material extensively in plant and animal ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation biology, limnology, entomology, ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, mammalogy, and Florida natural history. As of 2006, the collection includes 6,690 books, 7,500 bound periodical volumes, 3,300 Florida maps and aerial photographs, and 17,000 reprints. The Library has holdings in 400 serials and subscribes to 200.
The MCC Library provides access to print, electronic and media resources. Librarians are available to instruct you in making the best use of these resources. The library operates two facilities, one on the Bradenton Campus and one on the Venice Campus. The library's book catalog is available via the Internet. Electronic databases are also available via the Internet.
The Library’s collections reflect the liberal arts mission of the College and strongly support the curriculum through a generous budget. Holdings currently include over 280,000 volumes, 1,500 periodical subscriptions, 700 serial subscriptions, 4200 periodicals and 4200 serials available through electronic resources, 74,000 government documents, a number of special collections, and hundreds of compact discs, videodiscs, and videotapes.
Jane Bancroft Cook Library serves the students of New College and the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, and is a resource for Manatee Community College as well as for local educators and residents. The library offers extensive bibliographic instruction to small groups, classes and individual students throughout the year. The Cook library provides hundreds of print and electronic-reserve materials to students annually, as well as ready access to material throughout the State University System of Florida. The library currently contains 274,059 volumes; 539,997 microforms; 5,064 audio-visual materials and 850 print subscriptions to scholarly journals. The library has access to about 500 electronic databases, 22,000 electronic journals, and 170,000 e-books; circulates 60,000 items; and borrows 5,500 inter-library-loan items.
The Library of the Learning Resources Center connects students and faculty with high quality informational resources and the instruction that they need to effectively utilize those resources.
The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Libraries are located on the Daytona Beach Campus and the Prescott Campus.
The Stetson University College of Law Libraries support the law school curriculum and faculty, staff and court research. The Library at the Gulfport Campus is open to members of the public. Both the Gulfport and Tampa Campus libraries are open to alumni and to members of a bar association.
The Paul A.M. Dirac Science Library is named in honor of the late Nobel Prize winning physicist and Florida State University professor. The Library maintains a collection of over 500,000 volumes of books and periodicals and 126,000 volumes of older periodical and book materials in remote storage that are available within 24 hours. Subjects covered include the fields of chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, history of science, biology, geology, oceanography, meteorology, food sciences & nutrition, hotel & restaurant management, clothing & textiles, engineering, psychology and clinical counseling, math & science education, health, nursing & medicine, audiology & speech pathology, movement science and photography.
The libraries at Nova Southeastern University include Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and IT Center, the Health Professions Division Library, the Shepard Broad Law Library and Technology Center, and the William S. Richardson Ocean Sciences Library.
This beautiful house with a whimsical name dates to a quieter time. The Barnacle, built in 1891, offers a glimpse of Old Florida during The Era of the Bay. Situated on the shore of Biscayne Bay, this was the home of Ralph Middleton Munroe, one of Coconut Grove´s most charming and influential pioneers. Munroe's principal passion was designing yachts. In his lifetime, he drew plans for 56 different boats. As a seaman, civic activist, naturalist, and photographer, Commodore Munroe was a man who cherished the natural world around him. A walk into the park passes through a tropical hardwood hammock. In the 1920s, it was representative of the original landscape within the city of Miami. Today, it is one of the last remnants of the once vast Miami Hammock. Enjoy sitting in the rocking chairs on the spacious porch used as a gathering place or on a bench under a tree for solitude.
Nelson Poynter Memorial Library supports the mission and goals of USF SP in three ways: In cooperation with the USF Library System, we provide print, media, and electronic information resources required for teaching, learning, and research. We provide the services and instructional opportunities required for using this information effectively. We support student learning by providing and maintaining classroom technologies.
The Everglades University Library supports the mission of the University by providing students with academic resources and research skills necessary to become independent learners in a changing environment. The academic library has more than a collection of books and journals. The Everglades University Online Electronic Resources will provide students with access to databases and indexes, electronic journals, an online catalog, eBooks, and other valuable resources.
At present the Library houses over 275,000 volumes and hundreds of reference CDs containing volumes of information on various subjects. U.S. Government Documents, newspaper and magazine indexes, corporate annual reports are just some of the types of information that is available. Audiovisual equipment such as VCRs, digital cameras, slide projectors, film projectors and screens are available for circulation to the University Community.
The Health Sciences Center Library, founded in 1971, serves the students, faculty, and staff of the colleges of medicine, nursing, public health, and the school of physical therapy. In November of 1998, the Library was renamed for benefactors Hinks and Elaine Shimberg. This library collects materials to meet the needs of its primary patrons. Formats include books, journals, computer software, AVs, CD-ROMS, and networked information.
The Peter H. Armacost Library at Eckerd College provides support services to students of Eckerd College and the greater community.
The Chipola College Library serves as an integral part of the college’s instructional program. The Library pro-vides print and non-print materials to support the course offerings of the college and to support the pro-fessional and personal growth of the faculty, staff, ad-ministration, and students. The Chipola College Library is an information resource center providing books, magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. Computers offer Internet access to online databases of full text periodicals and electronic books. The Library offers audio/video viewing rooms, study rooms, course reserve materials, and photocopy ma-chines. Reference assistance is available for group and individualized instruction.
The libraries at Florida State University provide research and academic support to students and faculty of the university, as well as the community at large.
To provide a variety of learning centered resources, services, and facilities to support a diverse community; to encourage academic achievement, student success, and lifelong learning; and to enhance teaching excellence.
The Santa Fe College Lawrence W. Tyree Library offers almost 100,000 volumes, supporting the college mission with knowledgeable staff, resources and an environment that promotes user success.
As a dynamic and integral part of the academic scholarly enterprise, the University of Miami Libraries are central to the University's mission to educate and nurture students, to create knowledge, and to provide service to our community and beyond. The Libraries seek to provide high quality information services, instruction, and resources to our primary clientele: the students, faculty, researchers, and staff of the University of Miami.
The Stetson University duPont-Ball Library offers a large collection of circulation materials, electronic services, government documents, periodicals, and reference materials.
The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. The Project utilizes selected original records, photographs and other materials from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.
In support of the college's institutional mission and purpose, the mission of the Lake-Sumter Community College libraries is to serve LSCC students, faculty, staff, and the residents of Lake and Sumter counties by providing convenient access to a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the high academic standards of the college.
The Brevard County Law Library contains federal laws and Florida statutes, case law reporters, digests, treatises on law, form books and practice guides. In addition to books, selected resources are available on CD-ROM.
The Everest University Libraries provide an organized and readily accessible collection of materials and equipment needed to meet the instructional and individual needs of the students and faculty.
FAU Libraries promote the academic goals of the University by serving a uniquely diverse community through academic and personal development, discovery, lifelong learning, excellence, and innovation. The Libraries fulfill their mission by providing access to collections and services, building a rich resource of research materials, promoting a dynamic and multifaceted information literacy program, maintaining a dialogue with the scholarly community, developing creative programming, encouraging public engagement, and forming cultural alliances.
The mission of the library is to train students to produce highly sophisticated and cost-effective legal research. The library offers one of the nation's most comprehensive, systematic legal research training programs and extensive legal research offerings.
The Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library serves the Barry University students, faculty, and staff. The Library provides access to the information needed to support and develop learning and research.
The TCC Library serves as the primary information source for students and faculty of the college. They offer a collection spanning traditional formats such as books and periodicals, to multi-media and on-line tools and information sources, with all necessary equipment to use them.
The FGCU Library serves more than 9,000 students in 52 undergraduate and 31 graduate degree programs at Florida Gulf Coast University.
The Karpeles Library is the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts and documents. The archives include documents and manuscripts such as: the proposal draft of the United States Bill of Rights; The Emancipation Proclamation Amendment to the United States Constitution; and original drafts of the National Constitutions of France, Spain and Mexico; Scientific manuscripts including Descarte and Kepler; Historical documents including Pope Lucius' Proclomation of the Sacred Duties of the Knights of the Holy Crusades; and similar monumental documents in literature, history, exploration, and art. Exhibits change quarterly. Children's program includes over 20 theme rooms for future career exploration and play for young children.
The University Libraries has a collection of over 1.8 million volumes, including 17,000 current serial subscriptions. In addition to bound volumes, the library owns approximately 3 million microforms and 45,000 media titles. UCF is a partial depository for both United States and Florida government publications.
The Library offers support services to students at Brevard Community College. There are locations in Cocao, Melbourne, Palm Bay, Titusville, and a virtual location.
Located in the historic 1907 Carnegie Library on the campus of Florida A & M University, the Black Archives Research Center and Museum provides important insight and information on the history of Africa and African Americans. The Black Archives was established by the Florida Legislature in 1971 and dedicated and opened to the public in 1977. Its mission is to collect, preserve, dispense and display materials relevant to the history of African Americans and black people worldwide, emphasizing especially their experiences, contributions, and interactions with other ethnic groups. More than a half million documents and thousands of artifacts from all over the world are housed in the repository, including a 500-piece Ethiopian Christian cross collection, and rare African books and maps, some dating back to the 1700s. Another special feature is the Archives' mobile unit. The unit travels throughout Florida and to neighboring states displaying historical artifacts on the contributions of African American people.
The Thomas G. Carpenter Library supports the educational goals of the University by providing information resources, services, and programs that encourage study and learning, support instruction and academic programs, facilitate research and scholarship, and engage the university-at-large and the broader communities we serve.
The de la Parte Institute (FMHI) Library has been an established resource for information on mental health research, policy, and treatment for over 30 years. Its core monographic and serial collection on managed behavioral health, health care reform, outcomes and accountability, behavioral health services research, and public health policy is unique within the state university system. The library has over 40,000 monographs and 200 current journal titles, with access to online publications, webcasts, databases, and Institute reports. Library staff provide a number of services, including specialized training on database searching, literature reviews and syntheses; current awareness services, grants notification, and weekly news updates on topical areas.
The Seminole Community College Library offers over119,000 items in library collections, over 10,000 journal titles, and more.
Services offered include instruction in the use of library resources on an individual or group basis by appointment. Interlibrary Loan for materials not housed in the libraries is provided for students, faculty and staff. Bibliographies on various topics are available. New bibliographies can be prepared upon faculty request.
PBA's Warren Library offers wireless and hard-wired Internet access, 120 computers, 28 study rooms, and over 350,000 volumes.
The library houses a collection of approximately 95,000 volumes of books and 8,000 periodical subscriptions in digital, paper, and microform format. The LRC also has several specialized collections, including a Curriculum Materials Center (CMC), the Instructional Materials Lab (IML), and the Pioneer Room, which houses Church of God and WSC archival materials.
The Goldstein Library helps bridge access to people and information through resources, services and teaching by promoting learning and research related to Information Sciences.
The College of Central Florida Learning Resource Center Mission is to provide resources and services to meet the informational, learning, and developmental needs of Central Florida Community College students, faculty, and broader community. In the LRC, visitors will find resources such as books, computers, and online materials to help them complete assignments and to increase their knowledge. They will also find a warm, friendly staff willing to help them find materials and teach them to utilize the facility.
The Gulf Coast Community College Library offers books, articles, journals, ebooks, course videos, and much more.