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Digital lending surge strains Beehive consortium budgets; Orem weighs hold limits and alternative models
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Orem library staff told the Library Advisory Commission that digital checkouts within the Beehive Library Consortium have surged and that rising publisher costs are straining budgets.
Orem library staff reported that the Beehive Library Consortium is seeing exponential growth in digital checkouts and rising publisher costs that are straining collection budgets.
“We have grown another, we think, million checkouts, this calendar year,” a library staff member said, describing increasing demand for digital material in the consortium. The staff member said Orem is the fifth‑largest user of the consortium and that publisher prices have been increasing roughly 20% year over year for some titles.
Staff described several mitigation strategies under…
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