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GMLC - 10 years by the Numbers

2008 - Became a 501(c)3

2008 - ListenUp Vermont subscribers - 98 libraries

2008 - VOKAL was formed

2009 - Mango Languages subscribers - 19 libraries

2009 - Recorded Books One Click subscribers - 49 libraries

2010 - VOKAL Consortium ILS was launched with 3 libraries circulating by year’s end

2011 - ebooks were first added to the LUV collection

2012 - SCOOP purchasing cooperative was offered to all GMLC members (the contract participation was handed over to the State in 2015)

2015 - Conducted a feasibility study to determine if a delivery service was something that could be a sustainable project to pursue

2016 - Delivery service launched with 78 libraries participating (delivery service coordination handed over to the State in 2018 with over 100 libraries participating)

2018 - LUV has 159 subscribers with a collection of 5163 downloadable audiobooks and 9247 downloadable ebooks

2018- VOKAL has 58 libraries circulating with 116,763 registered borrowers, 436,062 bibliographic records, 1,181,133 items, and an annual circulation of 1,463,471

2018 - Mango has 19 subscribers

2021 - VOKAL has 63 libraries circulationg.

Vermont Libraries, Working Together

In late 2007, a group of approximately 15 libraries joined together to provide downloadable audio book service to the State of Vermont. The Green Mountain Library Consortium was officially born in 2008 from these initial meetings, and now has over 155 members from public, school, academic and special libraries, with a service population of over 400,000.

Our mission is to provide Vermont's libraries with access to goods and services otherwise unattainable, through the power of partnerships and collective purchasing. This is summed up in the consortium's tagline: Vermont Libraries, Working Together.

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