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To: Road Walker who wrote (36427)	5/3/2014 12:41:53 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

Just putting it another way, my feeling is that book lending operations have outlived their usefulness. I think there is other functionality that can be provided. About 20 years ago my firm handled the annual audit of one of the bigger library systems in our state; they were very aggressive in their transition to digital media but could not get away from the book lending costs. I saw their financial statements a few years ago and they're still spending what they were 20 years ago on archaic infrastructure for book lending. Maybe that isn't typical but I suspect it is. So, I would do away for the most part with the lending library operation and focus more on educational applications.