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SUNLINK

SUNLINK is a state database of school library media center holdings in Florida's K-12 public schools. The database, designed to promote resource sharing among public schools, is available on the World Wide Web. (www.sunlink.ucf.edu)

SUNLINK can be searched by author, title, or subject as well as full Boolean searching by keyword, location, format or language of the material. Approximately 25% of the books in the database also have searchable reading level and interest level information.

Funded by the Florida legislature, SUNLINK is an initiative of the Instructional Materials / School Library Media Services Office of the Department of Education. The project is administered by the SUNLINK Project Office at the University of Central Florida.

• Expanded access to resources -- Students may search their own collection as well as those in other library media centers in the district, region or entire state and the school can generate an inter-library loan request.
• MARC records for implementing local automation systems and a cataloging aid
• Collection development tool
• Resource for teaching information search skills
• Internet access to collections
• Access to reading level and interest levels as well as selected web sites appropriate for K-12 students

• By application - applications accepted in February and October. Schools must have weeded collections of out-dated materials, have inventoried the collection, and have accurate records of materials. When accepted, a school's records are converted to MARC format at project expense and a set of the machine readable records are supplied to the school for their local use.
• Through new school MARC transfer - New schools purchasing initial collections from approved participating vendors have records provided to project at no cost to project or to school.
• Through district transfer - District with library media union catalogs submit and update database.

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