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What is the FEL?

The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. The Florida Electronic Library offers information for all age groups, including homework help for students and resources for teachers.

Electronic resources available through the Florida Electronic Library include:

• Florida on Florida, a comprehensive digital collection of Florida's history, culture, and environment made available from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies throughout Florida.


• The Florida Memory Project which brings information from the State Library and Archives of Florida to homes and workplaces. This interactive Web site allows researchers, teachers, and students of all ages to access historically significant documents, photos, film clips, and audio clips any time, from any computer with Internet access, bringing Florida's rich history to life.


• FloridaCat, a comprehensive online catalog of all of Florida's library holdings.


• Florida's Ask a Librarian which provides live online reference assistance from Florida librarians.

These online databases and services are available free of charge to any Florida resident with a public library card, and can be accessed from any home, workplace, public school, or public library in Florida, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.