Sharing Borrower Information in a Consortium

Library consortia sometimes want to allow borrowers with accounts at one consortium library to use items held at another consortium library. Horizon offers two methods for libraries that are part of the same consortium to maintain common borrower information:

Shared Borrower database. This method works when several libraries use a single borrower database.
Synchronizing borrower data. This method works for libraries that maintain separate borrower databases, but want to coordinate information in the databases.

Both methods let borrowers who have borrower rights at one consortium library check out items from any other consortium library without having to register at each separate library.

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