AspenCat is consortium of 30 smaller libraries in Colorado. Since November 2009, these libraries have been migrating to a Koha-based integrated library system solution supported by PTFS, Inc and CLiC. About half of the libraries have migrated to the union catalog, and another 15 will be moving over this fall. Evaluations show patrons like the system, and they love the easy access to a much larger collection. The average AspenCat collection is 15,000 items. When all libraries have migrated, patrons will have access to nearly half a million items. But even half-way through the migration, the numbers of borrows between libraries in impressive. Here’s a chart to date of resource sharing growth. aspencat statistics
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