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Reciprocal Borrowing

Library users don’t want to be limited to the facilities available in their city or on their university campus, which has led libraries to form reciprocal borrowing agreements to honor library cards within a designated geographic area. In cases like this, through Reciprocal Borrowing, SirsiDynix offers an automated solution to authenticate patrons across multiple automation systems. Reciprocal Borrowing protects the security of your library’s collection by enabling you to identify users who abuse library services elsewhere. Reciprocal Borrowing provides an easy way for libraries to authenticate borrowers and capture information electronically, eliminating the need for manual registration.

With this information at hand, libraries can confidently offer borrowing privileges to patrons in good standing at their home institutions. Through the use of Reciprocal Borrowing, libraries can form regional agreements to improve services to all of their users without corresponding increases in collection budgets.