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We've found that resource sharing is one of the most popular aspects of our consortium. We've had some systems that expressed hesitancy out of concern for the extra work, their materials not being on the shelves, being damaged/lost, etc. When patrons suddenly
have access to so many more materials, and they start flowing in the door that tends to change minds. We make sure to emphasize the 6 month age hold protection, aka if you paid for it, your patrons get first dibs. But, on the other side of that
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getting value for your money </span>coin, if you have a 25 book set of Western novels and one goes missing, there's all the other libraries someone can get it from so you don't have to spend your collection development money buying another one. We notice that
outgoing traffic has pretty good polarity with incoming traffic, so small libraries send and receive less stuff. </div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [External] [Evergreen-general] Staff training</font>
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<div dir="ltr">For anyone who does staff training - Our system is in the process of beginning to share resources between libraries. I have one library with a large number of staff members who are reluctant and unhappy about the changes. Any suggestion on how
to alleviate the fears surrounding sharing resources? I have a staff training planned for November so I would love some ideas.
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