Rachel Erb
Director of Electronic Resources at Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative - Tallahassee, FL, US
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Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative
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The Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative provides services, support, and resources for the libraries of our state's public colleges and universities. We work behind the scenes to help ensure that Florida's students have the tools and information they need to succeed. In all, FALSC serves 40 institutions and more than 150 campus libraries. Our products and services are available to nearly 1.3 million students, faculty, and staff.Key services include: management and maintenance of a statewide collection of online journals, e-books, and other valuable e-resources; support for open educational resources and digital collections; a shared catalog of library holdings, enabling students to search for materials owned by any state college or university; a sophisticated integrated library system; procurement of e-resources for individual institutions through group licensing; training and consultation for library staff; and a statewide Help Desk providing user and technical support for our services.FALSC is a unit of the Florida Virtual Campus, administered by the the University of West Florida's Division of Research and Strategic Innovation (DRSI). The organization has offices in Gainesville, Pensacola, and Tallahassee, Fla.Our staffers have a variety of backgrounds — in library science, information technology, education, communication, and other fields.