The Ringling Museum of Art Library is one of the largest art museum libraries in the Southeast United States, containing almost 70,000 holdings, including books, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, and auction catalogues. The Library contains almost 70,000 volumes and exhibition catalogs and has more than 100 current periodical titles. The Library conducts and supports research on the Museum's collection of Italian and European Baroque art, 20th Century Art, Decorative Arts, Peter Paul Rubens, Contemporary Art, and Photography. The Library collects research materials encompassing the entire history of art, art education and conservation and houses a collection of rare books from the 16th to 20th centuries, including the personal library of John Ringling. The Library has extensive ephemeral files on artists in the Ringling collection, the Museum complex, and artist and museum files from around the world.

The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. The Florida Electronic Library offers information for all age groups, including homework help for students and resources for teachers.

The Florida Institute of Phosphate Research (FIPR) is a state agency created in 1978 to study phosphate issues that impact Florida’s citizens, environment and economy and to be a phosphate information resource. Scientists and engineers from throughout the world apply for FIPR grants to conduct phosphate-related studies. FIPR staff biologists, engineers and chemists also conduct in-house research.

The SUNLINK database indexes over 2 million titles from almost 3,000 schools (K-12) in 67 districts in the state of Florida, including 31,627 cataloged educational web sites, 546,155 book cover images, 500 images from the Florida Memory Project, 34 Florida Department of Education Project records, and almost 2,000 files of streaming video from Annenberg Media.

If you or someone you know has trouble reading print because of an eye problem or reading disability, or has difficulty holding a book because of arthritis, a stroke, or an accident, the Braille and Talking Book Library can help keep you in touch with the world of books and magazines.

The Legislative Library Service is located within the Florida Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services. The Division provides direct library services to state government; develops library services statewide; and provides archival and records management services, technical assistance, education, financial aid, and cooperative services. Within this framework, the Legislative Library Service provides priority information and research services to the members and staff of the Florida Legislature. The library also serves the information needs of other state departments and agencies and assists the general public with legislative research.

The Arthur Vining Davis Library has been providing resources, reference and research for 30 years at Mote Marine Laboratory. Its collection is maintained for the support of marine research and education. The library is open to the public by appointment. Since 1955, Mote staff has produced 845 peer-reviewed papers. They are contained in the Collected Papers from Mote Marine Laboratory. The library includes more than 20,000 volumes, 400 journal titles, 138 current journal subscriptions, 2,750 cataloged reprints and more than 1,100 Mote Technical Reports. The collection reflects the research interests of the laboratory: coastal, shelf and estuarine ecology; coral reef physiology; fisheries; finfish mariculture; aquaculture; elasmobranch biology and biomedical research; fates and effects of toxins in the marine environment; marine mammals of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts; sea turtles and nautical archaeology.