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FINANCIAL IMPACTS <br />• Software costs associated with enabling the exchange of patron registration data. <br />• Personnel costs associated with importing and exporting data. Personnel costs would be <br />contingent upon the level of technical expertise required to perform this task and the frequency <br />with which data is exchanged. <br />• Sharing patron data has the potential to result in increased annual costs related to subscription <br />resources and /or ILS maintenance. <br />2) SHARED ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION RESOURCES <br />As indicated in option 1, both library systems maintain a collection of online resources for their library <br />patrons. If a single card is accepted at both library systems, there may be opportunities to negotiate <br />shared contracts for duplicated services. <br />BENEFITS <br />• Negotiating joint contracts for select online resource subscriptions may provide cost savings to <br />both library systems or eliminate duplicate costs. <br />PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS <br />• Interlocal Agreement —Joint contract negotiation would require a well- defined interlocal <br />agreement regarding the terms access, continuation, maintenance and ownership, as well as <br />collaboration between the legal professionals representing each governing body. <br />LIMITATIONS <br />• Opportunities to negotiate shared contracts would have to be established separately for each <br />vendor, and may not be available for all resources. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACTS <br />• Further negotiations among governing bodies and resource vendors would be required in order <br />to determine financial impacts. <br />3) EXCHANGE OF MATERIALS <br />The library systems would regularly exchange books in order to fill patron requests for titles not owned by <br />the patron's home library. <br />Orange County Public Library currently provides a similar service to Carrboro libraries, including a courier <br />route 3 times weekly. <br />BENEFITS <br />• Library patrons that prefer to use only one library system would have access to additional <br />materials. <br />• Library patrons would have additional flexibility regarding the pickup location of requested <br />materials. <br />6 <br />51 <br />