Institutions are unable to adequately share collections because of systems constraints .
Speed of delivery of materials among collections will be improved. The linkage includes access to one another's on-line catalogs, a variety of library information resources, and the ability to borrow from any of the six institutions. The six state universities have a long tradition of sharing library materials with each other. Statistics on this cooperative usage have been collected for years. These statistics reveal an increasing reliance on each other's collections.