NEFLIN
Library network in Florida
NEFLIN, the Northeast Florida Library Information Network, is one of five non-profit library cooperatives committed to serving libraries throughout Florida.
NEFLIN formed as a result of librarians in North Florida wanting to collaborate on resources and services for patrons. An LSCA grant in 1992 provided the means for a feasibility study, which revealed the need for a cooperative library organization through the report "A Plan for Northeast Florida Library Information Network (NEFLIN)." Established in 1992, NEFLIN's members employ 2,720 services 550 public, academic, school, and specialized libraries located within its 24 county service area, which serves over 4 million people.
NEFLIN is governed by a nine-member, elected, Board of Directors that represents each type of library in the cooperative.
Through grant funding and membership dues, NEFLIN provides members access to training and continuing education, resource sharing, research and development, partnerships for grant funding, leadership opportunities, and additional services through relationships with other organizations.
NEFLIN also offers award to NEFLIN members and member institutions, such as the Continuing Education Award for Making the Most of NEFLIN and the NEFLIN Member of the Year.
Florida's multitype library cooperatives
NEFLIN is one of five multitype library cooperatives (MLCs) in Florida. The other four are:
Panhandle Library Access Network
Southeast Florida Library Information Network
Southwest Florida Library Network
Tampa Bay Library Consortium
The MLCs facilitate the statewide delivery service, reciprocal borrowing, and interlibrary loan program in Florida.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “NEFLIN” is library network in Florida. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through NEFLIN, Library and network, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “library network in Florida” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6953457. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “NEFLIN”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow NEFLIN primary sources, NEFLIN archive and NEFLIN research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “NEFLIN”?
- Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “NEFLIN” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.