W hether it’s using geographic information systems to help IFAS researchers rebuild oyster reefs or computer vision and large language models to make collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History more accessible, UF’s George A. Smathers Libraries have come a long way since its first building opened a century ago with 40,000 books that could only be read in the building. Today, the UF libraries are a state-of-the-art academic resource system that has evolved to play a pivotal role [...
