The Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services Selects Auto-Graphics’ SHAREit Product to Foster Resource Sharing
August 10, 2020 at 01:00 pm EDT
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Auto-Graphics Inc. announced that its cloud-based resource sharing solution, SHAREit, has been awarded a contract with the Florida Department of State’s Division of Library and Information Services. The contract continues Auto-Graphics’ expansion into the Southeast with existing customers, joining the state libraries of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. This contract delivers Florida’s new and enhanced statewide resource sharing platform, FLIN SHAREit. The initial implementation, late August, will provide resource sharing services for 105 libraries. FLIN SHAREit expects to expand the membership throughout the coming years to encompass an estimated 700 libraries. Many of the libraries included in the initial phase are members of the Florida Library Information Network (FLIN). FLIN members host over 37 million items in their collections and exchange over 100,000 items annually through resource sharing. The addition of the Florida contract marks the fourteenth state supported by Auto-Graphics’ SHAREit. SHAREit continues to meet acceptance throughout the North American resource sharing market with a 35-year history of providing solutions to state libraries and resource sharing consortia. FLIN will be configured as a hybrid catalog, utilizing both a virtual (Z39.50) and a physical union database approach, ensuring discovery equality in the FLIN SHAREit system, regardless of the library’s size. Additional augmented services will be supported through the NCIP (direct to circulation systems) approach based on local library needs.
Agent Information Software, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries Auto Graphics, Inc. and A-G Canada, Ltd., provides software products and services used to create, manage, publish and access information content via the Internet/Web. Auto Graphics, Inc. provides software products and services to customers in the library community and publishing markets throughout the United States. A-G Canada Ltd. provides software products and services to customers in the library community in Canada. The Companyâs products include VERSO, SHAREit, MONTAGE and RESEARCHit. The VERSO Integrated Library System (ILS) allows library to select and pay for only the services needed. SHAREit is an online-based resource sharing platform. MONTAGE is a cloud-based digital collection solution. RESEARCHit is a federated search solution, that allows researchers to search a range of e-content resources and yield a common de-duplicated result set.