Seattle (SPL) and King County (KCLS) have a reciprocal borrowing agreement that won't allow SPL patrons to place holds at King County libraries. KCLS patrons aren't restricted and can still place holds at Seattle libraries. Agreements between Seattle and other libraries don't have this restriction.
Why can't Seattle residents place holds on KCLS materials?
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In 2006 the imbalance of cross-usage between the two libraries had reached approximately $1 million. At that time the parties agreed to implement the holds restriction for Seattle patrons at KCLS, which effectively offset this imbalance.
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Patrons who live within the Seattle city limits still may not place holds, a limit in place since October 1, 2006. This limit was imposed to relieve KCLS taxpayers of the cost of serving Seattle residents, as discovered in a cross-use study between KCLS and SPL. When cross-use was re-examined in 2008, this limitation had corrected this imbalance resulting in fairly even cross-use for taxpayers of both Library Systems.
Under the current arrangement, Seattle patrons are not eligible to make use of KCLS eBooks and downloadable Audiobooks from services that include a holds component–for example, Overdrive.
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