Outside contractor for libraries? In possible alternative, Maryland firm would run operations
Source: By Damian Mann, Mail Tribune (OR), May 26, 2007
Outsourcing library operations has the potential to knock 40 percent off the budget for all 15 branches in Jackson County, says the executive director of the Jackson County Library Foundation.
Jim Olney said preliminary discussions with Library Systems and Services LLC (known by the acronym LSSI), a Maryland-based library management company, indicate to him the cost of operating the libraries could be reduced from $8 million to $5 million.