Flávia Bastos serves as Coordinator of Libraries, General Coordination at the São Paulo State University (Universidade Estadual Paulista—Unesp). She is also Executive Coordinator of the Institutional Repository of Unesp. She holds a doctoral degree in Information Science in the field of Information and Technology and is a researcher with the New Technology of Information Group, exploring themes such as digital libraries, institutional repositories, automated libraries, integrated library systems, and discovery systems.

Unesp is one of the largest and most important Brazilian universities, with distinguished achievements in teaching, research, and extension services. Supported by State funds, Unesp, along with USP (Universidade de São Paulo) and Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), offers free public higher education in São Paulo State. Founded in 1976, Unesp represents the most successful model of a multicampus university in Brazil, supporting intense and diversified activities in São Paulo—the most developed State in Brazil. Unesp's influence is recognized through the level of regional development where its campuses are located—one in the State capital and 23 others strategically distributed throughout the State.