The following section of the survey asks you to enumerate resource sharing/delivery services provided or contracted for by the library system or consortium.

In addition to completing the questions below, please provide any documentation you have related to the following:

o Current delivery route maps
o Delivery budget and notes for 2013 and 2014, if it is not included in the ILS budget already provided.
o Statistics for delivery volume for 2012 and 2013 and methodology for collecting statistics
o Statistics for usage by borrowers who are residents of other Wisconsin counties not in the library system

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* ILS consortium name:

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* Name of individual completing survey:

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* 1. Is the annual amount paid by libraries and the system for delivery included in the ILS budget?

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* 2a. If you answered "none" or "partial" to Question 1:

Do members pay an annual fee (outside of the ILS fee) to cover some of the costs for delivery?

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* 2b-c: If you answered "yes" to question 2a:

For the sake of this question, we are going to assume that some portion of the annual fee is divided by a formula that applies to all members (we will call this the “base fee”). It may be possible that some other portion of the annual fee is assessed only to libraries using extra days of delivery or other services (we will call this the “add-ons”)

2b. What is the formula used to determine the base fee?

2c. What, if any, add-ons are included as part of the annual fee?

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* 3. If a portion or all of delivery costs are included in the ILS budget, do the budgeted amounts for delivery include public libraries not participating in the ILS consortium?

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* 4. Please complete the chart below with the number of libraries that receive 1 day, 2 day, etc. of delivery per week:

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* 5a. Are you contracting for delivery service from a vendor(s)?

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* 5b. If you answered "yes" to 5a:

What vendor are you using?

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* 5c. If you answered "yes" to 5a:

Please describe in detail the services the vendor is providing (sorting, etc.) or provide explanatory documentation:

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* 5d. If you answered "yes" to 5a:

What is the term of your current contract?

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* 6. Are you using any ILS tools or configurations to improve delivery efficiency?

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* How does a public library in the system that is not an ILS participant borrow materials from an ILS participant? (check all that apply):

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* How does an ILS participant borrow materials from a public library in the system that is not an ILS participant? (check all that apply):

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* 9. Are net lenders within the consortium compensated in any way?

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* 10. Please describe any issues you had, if any, in answering the questions in this section or any other comments you have about this section:

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