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LINC links 13 Clackamas County libraries and moves nearly 2 million items a year, manager says
Summary
Rick Petersen, Library Network Manager, described how LINC— a consortium of 13 Clackamas County libraries—shares catalogs and materials, runs a central hub and automated sorter, and provides services from ebooks and cultural passes to interlibrary loan; funding comes from a 2008 library district levy and county general funds.
LINC, a consortium that connects 13 libraries across Clackamas County, allows residents to search one catalog and borrow materials from any member library, Library Network Manager Rick Petersen said. Petersen said the system moves just under 2,000,000 items each year between libraries and operates a central processing hub at the Red Soils campus in Oregon City.
The consortium provides centralized services—including cataloging, some IT support and daily delivery—so individual libraries can remain locally operated while sharing access to collections and digital resources such as databases, e-books and audiobooks. "We move just under…
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