The Library Connection, Eastern Shores Library System newsletter, March 2013.
March 19th meeting of library directors from Eastern Shores Library System (ESLS) and Manitowoc Calumet Library System (MCLS)
- Purpose: To discuss questions and concerns about a possible merger.
- Facilitator: John De Bacher, Director of Public Library Development from the Division for Libraries and Technology
- Core services discussed
- Centralized cataloging
- Integrated library System (ILS)
- Delivery service (electronic and physical)
- Resource library
- County reimbursement for services to nonresidents
- Network services and bandwidth
- Other items discussed
- Joint acquisitions
- Policies serving patrons
- ESLS ratio report and purchasing high demand material
- How costs covering an ILS are different in each system
- Submitting a system plan to the state by budget time
- Next meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 9 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. at Mead Public Library.
- Other system services to be reviewed:
- Continuing education
- Consulting
- Users with special needs
- Reference referral and interlibrary loan
- Technology planning
- Intersystem agreements
- Multitype cooperation
- Advocacy
- Public information/marketing
- Services to youth
- Cooperative purchasing
Related posts:
Manitowoc-Calumet and Eastern Shores Continue Library Systems Merger Investigation. (3/4/2013)
Eastern Shores Library System explores merger possibilities. (10/18/2012; includes document timeline from 6/4/2011 onward)
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