The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools
Author
Thomas, William Joseph
Abstract
Joint-use libraries have been created to share resources, reduce facilities costs, and more efficiently serve patrons. There have been several notable examples in the news. In the summer of 2013, a joint-use facility opened in Virginia Beach, a partnership between the Virginia Beach Public Library and the Tidewater Community College, whose campus houses the
facility.2 A decade before that, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library opened in San Jose, merging the San José Main
Public Library with the San Jose State University Library.3 But did you know that North Carolina has had a joint-use
library in Carrboro for some 20 years?
Date
2015
Citation:
APA:
Thomas, William Joseph. (January 2015).
The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools.
North Carolina Libraries,
73(1),
45-
47. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4969
MLA:
Thomas, William Joseph.
"The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools". North Carolina Libraries.
73:1. (45-47),
January 2015.
November 30, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4969.
Chicago:
Thomas, William Joseph,
"The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools," North Carolina Libraries 73, no.
1 (January 2015),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4969 (accessed
November 30, 2023).
AMA:
Thomas, William Joseph.
The Joint-Use Library in Carrboro: Bringing Together Orange County Public Library and Chapel-Hill/Carrboro City Schools. North Carolina Libraries.
January 2015;
73(1):
45-47.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4969. Accessed
November 30, 2023.
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