- Safety in numbers; shared risk
- Shared cost
- With more members, there may be more money to more quickly build a good collection of titles
- The work is shared among members.
- Marketing ideas and initiatives can be shared.
- You may get better costs than going it alone.
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- You lose some local control.
- The needs of the participating libraries may vary.
- For digital audio book services that do not offer unlimited concurrent use, this may increase patron demand for limited access titles and copies.
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