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Funded by the Florida Department of Education, SUNLINK is Florida's K-12 public school union catalog, a shared database of materials in Florida K-12 library media centers. Imagine a giant card catalog or electronic catalog that contains the records of all school library media centers in Florida! And you can ask to borrow any of them! That's SUNLINK!

The database is available on the World Wide Web. The primary purpose of SUNLINK is to promote resource sharing among Florida public schools. Schools are able to locate needed resources and borrow them by project-established interlibrary loan procedures.

Benefits and Obligations

The SUNLINK statewide database of K-12 library media materials expands the resources available to Florida public school students. The annual database, and training are provided at no charge to all SUNLINK schools.

Records converted for the project can be provided to the school on request. These MARC (machine readable cataloging) records meet national standards and may also be used to implement local building and/or district automated library systems.

The SUNLINK database can be used to assist in collection development and cataloging. It can be used to enhance instruction of information skills, database searching, and critical thinking. Keyword, Boolean logic, specific phrase, wild card, and word truncation are supported by SUNLINK.

In return, SUNLINK schools are required to:

• Participate in resource sharing within the guidelines of their local and district restrictions. Schools will always respect their local needs first, but the spirit of statewide resource sharing must be adopted by SUNLINK schools.
• Participate in the SUNLINK database maintenance procedure to ensure that the union database accurately reflects their changing local collection. Maintenance costs are paid by the project, not the schools.
• Respond to requests for information from the project office for school information update forms and resource sharing statistics reports.

SUNLINK Is Florida!

SUNLINK is an initiative of the Florida Department of Education, School Library Media Services Office. An advisory group, the SUNLINK Task Force, consists of district library media supervisors from state K-12 school districts.

The project is administered by the SUNLINK Project Office in the College of Education at the University of Central Florida. The project is dependent on continued funding by the state legislature.

Terms of Use

The Florida SUNLINK Project is funded by the State of Florida for use by Florida's K-12 public schools.

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of the State of Florida, Florida Department of Education and the Florida SUNLINK Project or its automation vendor, Brodart Automation and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of the State of Florida and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of the Florida SUNLINK Project or Brodart Automation and/or their suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. Book cover images are the intellectual property of the publishers and are protected by United States and international copyright laws. They may not be used or reproduced in any way without express written permission of the publisher.

SUNLINK Web Sites

SUNLINK includes professionally selected and cataloged web sites. Each full MARC record contains an annotation, an age-appropriation designation, LC subject headings and a URL which is hyperlinked for direct access to that web site. The web sites are cataloged by Brodart Automation's DartClix service. Read about the DartClix selection policy at http://www.books.brodart.com/products/automation/dartclix.htm