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Originally Posted by crossi
Running, much less setting up, any system would be expensive but spread over the entire US library system including schools it might be affordable. And do they have to use Adobes DRM and not a US library DRM? Looked at long term it might be less expensive than a constant drain to Overdrive and Adobe. Years to set up and implement I know but it's something for them to look at.
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Seriously, there really is no US library system. School libraries (that I'm familiar with in New Jersey) are funded through school budgets. Public libraries may be either municipal, joint partnerships of municipalities (I used to volunteer with the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township), county wide (with municipalities having the right to opt-in or opt-out), etc. Colleges and universities are responsible for their own libraries, and they are (for the most part) fiercely independent in that regard. And that's just my state. The other states have their own systems.