<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is super helpful. Thank you!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM Erica McCormick via lstac <<a href="mailto:lstac@omls.oregon.gov">lstac@omls.oregon.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg656648602607614672">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">This is from our statewide resource sharing manager, Jeremy Selvidge. Hope it helps.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Our current breakdown (in rough percentages) of database funding:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">State: 50%<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Federal: 30%<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Member fees/local funds: 20%<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Our current fee formula isn’t easy, and it’s reached a point where it’s no longer sustainable—I’ll be working with members over the next year to develop
a new fee structure for both programs, based on agency experience and the recommendations of our internal audit. All that said, here’s a quick rundown of how the current TexShare formula is intended to work:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Take the year’s total contract costs for TexShare and subtract the appropriated amounts of GR and federal dollars to be spent. The result is what needs to be covered
by member contributions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Based on previous years’ usage data, the member contributions amount is split: 75% from academic libraries; 25% from public libraries.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An individual institution’s fees are calculated from these library type totals, with further calculations to weight for population size and annual collections expenditures.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Like I said, it’s clunky. In addition to the calculations above, we have further guardrails in place so that no library will pay more than 5% of its
total annual collection expenditures, and no library’s fee can increase more than 10% over the previous year’s fee. Over the years, these guardrails have meant that most members’ fees have remained flat for the past 4 to 5 years—so that the amount collected
in fees is no longer reflective of the actual amount needed in member contributions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Jeremy Selvidge</span><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Manager, Statewide Resource Sharing | Library Development and Networking Division</span><i><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Texas State Library and Archives Commission
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</span><a href="http://www.tsl.texas.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(70,120,134)">www.tsl.texas.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Jeremy is happy to talk shop with anyone who wants to.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Erica A. McCormick, MLIS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Texas State Library and Archives Commission
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">512-463-5532 | 512-701-5714 (cell) | 800-252-9386 toll-free in TX|</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(192,0,0)">
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(36,64,97)"><a href="http://www.tsl.texas.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.tsl.texas.gov</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> lstac <<a href="mailto:lstac-bounces@omls.oregon.gov" target="_blank">lstac-bounces@omls.oregon.gov</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alyssa Ericksen via lstac<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 7, 2025 6:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lstac@omls.oregon.gov" target="_blank">lstac@omls.oregon.gov</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [lstac] Statewide database funding models - ideas?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi all, hope you're hanging in there this week.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In Nevada, LSTA funds databases for K–12, public, and academic libraries statewide, and we are now exploring alternatives.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Does your state offer cost-sharing or tiered subscription models? We are especially interested in creative or collaborative strategies that have worked well - and if your state has tested any “out of the box thinking”
approaches, I’d love to hear about those as well.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Your insights would be a huge help as we figure out next steps—and I’m sure others in our community would benefit too.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">With gratitude,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Alyssa Ericksen | LSTA Coordinator</span></b><span style="color:black"><br>
Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records<br>
505 E. Capovilla Ave., Ste. 103 | Las Vegas, NV 89119<br>
702-486-3760 | <a href="mailto:aericksen@admin.nv.gov" title="mailto:aericksen@admin.nv.gov" target="_blank">
aericksen@admin.nv.gov</a><br>
<a href="https://nsla.nv.gov/LSTA" title="https://nsla.nv.gov/LSTA" target="_blank">Nevada State Library - LSTA</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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