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Internet in public libraries and how to meet this goal. The survey was conducted in North Carolina in late November and early December. The results of the survey will be released later in 2009 and will assist the State Library in planning for possible solutions. Priorities 2, 3 & 4 are part of a desire to address the need for a statewide virtual catalog that would provide reciprocal borrowing, statewide materials delivery, and resource sharing. The State Library is developing a task force to work on the plan to take the idea of a statewide catalog that will give North Carolinians "what they want, when and where they want it" and have it grow into a reality by the end of 2011. A follow-up summit on the statewide broadband access and resource sharing will take place on August 12th at the 2009 NCPLA Summer Conference. At the August 20th work session, she said that she will be more than happy to update the BOCC on the meeting and share how these two projects will impact library service in Orange County. OCPL/CHPL Collaboration Project: Orange County Library staff and Chapel Hill Library staff met in May 2009 to begin discussions on possible collaboration alternatives between the two systems. A preliminary report summarizing initial alternatives for enhanced coordination of efforts is attached. However, due to several scheduling conflicts, the Orange County Public Library and Chapel Hill Public Library staffs have been unable to meet for further discussions since that time. On August 19th there was a meeting between County and Town Managers and appropriate county and library staff, to review the library services alternatives, assess their impact and prioritize. The purpose of the meeting was to flesh out the alternatives that the Board was given in June, the 12 alternatives. At the end of the meeting, future steps were decided, which would include continuing to work together to do a draft of a presentation that will be brought before the governing bodies on September 241h Frank Clifton said that at the Cedar Grove Library, staff is going to look into adding a door in adjacent rooms so library staff could monitor the usage of the rooms with minimal staff. Frank Clifton said that Chapel Hill Library is looking for more participation from Orange County financially. He said that the librarians were going to work together on issues that did not have financial implications for now. Commissioner Jacobs said that the year before last, there was funding for more interoperability between the Orange County and Chapel Hill library systems. Lucinda Munger said that Orange County provides a courier system and the hope is that this will increase from one day to 3-4 days a week. She said that interoperability would bridge the County's Polaris system with Chapel Hill's system. She would hope that at some time in the near future, citizens could have one library card. Commissioner Nelson asked about the $20,000 Technology grant and verified that it does not include Chapel Hill. He said that it strikes him that they are talking about collaborating better and that it might be a good idea to have a three-year technology plan that includes Chapel Hill. He suggested asking Chapel Hill to chip in funds to be a part of this. Commissioner Nelson asked Lucinda Munger how she was envisioning this presentation in September. Lucinda Munger listed what would be presented - how the libraries collect data, overview of the libraries, the facilities available in Orange County and what they can offer, a summary of past library task forces' recommendations, a snapshot of how they got