Library board debates tighter Libby access for secondary property owners

Duchesne County Library Board members discussed proposed changes to the system's circulation policy that would limit secondary property owners'access to the statewide Libby/OverDrive digital collection and require those nonprimary owners to use the digital collections of their home library system.

Library staff member Daniel Markley described why he is proposing the change, saying the shared Beehive Library Consortium (Libby/OverDrive) collection is strained and that allowing multiple accounts per person produces unequal access: "If people have an account in Salt Lake and in Duchene and in Uinta, they have 3 accounts where most people only can have 1. They get 10 holds, they get so many, you know, and then that's it. This person can have 30 holds because they were able to get it." Markley said the county…