SirsiDynix: Library Consortia Solutions

Your choice to participate in a consortium speaks volumes about your commitment to library users. By joining forces with other member libraries, you extend access to more resources than you could possibly purchase and maintain on your own. As a consortium member, you play a part in forming a larger, better whole.

You choose to involve your library in a consortium – not lose your library in a conglomerate. Your library is unique. Its distinctive face, policies, and services speak to and meet the needs of your users. While operating within a consortium, you choose to preserve your library's identity.

You choose, in other words, to work together separately.

SirsiDynix helps library consortia worldwide maintain this delicate balance between union and separation. In fact, SirsiDynix supports more library consortia than any other information management vendor in the world. Regardless of the information management system vendor you and other member libraries choose, SirsiDynix integrated library systems meet your need to work well together separately. Working well together separately is the principle upon which SirsiDynix shared systems are built – and the principle governing the flexibility that SirsiDynix systems and products afford.

• Flexibility to choose your own library management solutions vendor and select the member libraries with which you will share resources.
• Flexibility to own, manage, and control your library's records and enforce its policies.
• Flexibility to extend access to even more information with an information portal that shows your library's face.
• Flexibility to share physical-and digital-resources.
• Flexibility to enable your users to search and place holds on the resources of your own and other members' libraries – and to enable users of other member libraries to search and place holds on your library's resources.

SirsiDynix has long been focused on the special needs of consortia and developed the industry's most Comprehensive Integrated Technology Environment for these organizations. From central library management systems that support all technical and public services... to today's leading business intelligence technologies for libraries... to the latest user interface solutions... and everything in between... they're all part of SirsiDynix's end-to-end suite of technologies supporting the unique and complex needs of today's consortia.

Added to this specific technical expertise for consortia is SirsiDynix's more than 25 years of service to libraries, including dozens of consortia that support hundreds of member libraries in North America and around the globe.