Demand Management Workshop

Some were expecting a Battle Royal as we gathered to pose the question, where are all the books going? Overall everyone was quite civil and the discussion was very productive. All of the libraries have a somewhat clearer vision of how the collaboration is going to work. We await the report from representative from Sirsidynix to see their recommendations. The libraries agree to share pretty equally across the board and we will continue to monitor the collection use across the libraries and fill in any gaps that appear. The academic libraries have a bit more restrictions but that should not pose much of an issue. I prefer the wait and see rather than setting an overly complex scheme. We did learn that we will need some sort of gateway or directing page for the home users to tell the system what library they are a user of. This will dictate our web presence.