Tag: News
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Boston Architectural College Joins FLO
FLO welcomes the Boston Architectural College as a new affiliate member. FLO is now 49 members strong!
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2025 FLO Information Literacy Symposium
Earlier this month on May 8, FLO hosted its annual Information Literacy Symposium at Emerson College. This year’s theme was “In the Face of Adversity,” centered around the topics of promoting library activism, combating mis/disinformation, building diverse and inclusive collections and library spaces, supporting community outreach and faculty engagement, and more. Keynote speakers Vivienne Piroli and Laura Saunders of Simmons…
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Berklee College of Music Now Live in FOLIO
We are excited to announce that earlier this week, Berklee Library went live in FOLIO! A major element of Berklee joining FLO in July 2024 was to combine their two ILSs, Evergreen and Koha, into one. After a lot of hard work from Berklee and FLO staff, Berklee Library is now using FOLIO as their…
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FLO Annual Meeting at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
On November 7, FLO hosted the Annual Meeting at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The day started with a warm welcome and year-in-review by Hee Jung Lee (MFA Library Director) and Joe Sikowitz (FLO Executive Director). Kristi Mukk, User Support Coordinator at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab gave the keynote presentation on “Librarianship of…
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Stonehill College Becomes FLO’s Newest Full Member
We are excited to announce that as of October 1, 2024, Stonehill College will be joining FLO as a full member! Joining FLO as a full member means that Stonehill will begin the migration process to FOLIO and ReShare with our remaining Voyager libraries in October. Stonehill’s go-live date for FOLIO is May 19, 2025 and they…
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FLO Libraries Now Live in FOLIO
We are excited to announce that as of this morning, Emerson College, Emmanuel College, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS), and Wentworth Institute of Technology have joined Simmons University and New England College of Optometry in adopting FOLIO! All four of the newly migrated libraries will be using FOLIO as their LSP and VuFind…
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Berklee College of Music Becomes FLO’s Newest Full Member
We are excited to announce that as of July 1, 2024, Berklee College of Music will be a full member of FLO. As an affiliate member, Berklee has been an active part of the FLO community for a number of years. Moving to full membership means that Berklee will begin the migration process for the…
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FLO Information Literacy and AI Workshop
On May 3rd, FLO hosted the annual Information Literacy meeting at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. This year’s topic was Information Literacy and Artificial Intelligence. Keynote speaker Jessica Condlin of Lesley University presented about generative AI and Large Language Models, exploring bias awareness, misinformation, and the many opportunities and challenges that these emerging…
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FLO Annual Meeting at Simmons University
On November 2nd, members of the FLO Community gathered at Simmons University for the FLO 2023 Annual Meeting. The first annual meeting held after four years, an interruption largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the day included updates from the FLO Board of Directors, a keynote address by Elliott of UMass Boston, lightning talks about projects at…
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FLO Annual Picnic
On Wednesday, October 11th, staff from FLO libraries gathered to share some ice cream and connect with colleagues at Evans Way Park for the FLO Annual Picnic. After our first date for the picnic in September was rained out, we were treated to beautiful weather and colorful leaves this time. We look forward to seeing…