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.