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Qmnge County Library Gong-Range Facility Planning <br />The jurisdiction of the Orange County Library system includes all areas of Orange County <br />exclusive of the Town of Chapel Hiil, although services are extended free of charge to <br />Chapel Hill residents. The system includes a central library located in a 12,650 square foot <br />facility in Hillsborough, the Cedar Grove $ranch Library located with other Orange County <br />services on Highway 86N, the Carrboro Branch Library, co-located with the media center in <br />t17e McDougle Middle School, and the Carrboro Cybrary recently opened in downtown <br />Carrboro. <br />An analysis of registered borrowers of the Orange County Library system by township <br />residence in 2001 indicated that the ]riglrest percentage of library borrowers lived in the <br />Cheeks, Hillsborough, and Chapel Hi11 Townships, with the majority of the Chapel Hill <br />Township registrations representing Carrboro Library borrowers.. Further analysis indicates <br />that not only do the borrowers from Cheeks and Hillsborough represent a large percentage of <br />the total library borrowers, but a relatively high percentage of the total population of these <br />townships (46% and 50% respectively). <br />Although the central tibrazy is housed in a facility with other Orange County government <br />offices, it has gained an identity as "Hillsborough's library," rather than "Orange County's <br />Library." It is the sense of the Task Force that this identity has contributed to the lack of <br />understanding among the public of library governance and funding responsibilities. <br />The progress made in the last several years to extend and improve services to the Town of <br />Carrboro has been the result of approaches from Carrboro residents directly to the Board of <br />Commissioners. Although the resulting services are under the auspices of the Orange County <br />Library administration, acompetitive tension appears to have developed that could interfere <br />with library progress overall if the County does not assume a more comprehensive approach <br />to tibrazy service and facility development. <br />^ The developrneut of library services for Orar+ge County residents lens been fragureuted <br />at best, resulting in Brent disparity in the level of library services provided tbrorrglrorrt <br />the county. <br />^ The, facilities artd resources of Uie Orange Coru+ty Prtblic Library system are <br />signlftcantly before the standard required to provide effective public library services. <br />Library staff kas been creative and resorrrcefrrl in "making do"with very limited <br />resources. <br />Chazt #1 compares the resources available in 2002-2003 to Orange County residents from the <br />Central Library with those at the Chapel Hil] Public Librazy and in the State as a whole It <br />demonstrates the disparity in available resources and the inadequacy of resources in relation <br />to state averages and professional standazds. 2002-2003 is the most recent year that <br />comparative figures are available for North Carolina as a whole- <br />
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