For private universities, reciprocal borrowing was an important influence in deciding to
join the consortia (68%). Other factors, such as discounted/ subsidized electronic
resources and brokering (63%), cost effectiveness (58%), and Illinet Online, the shared
integrated library system (53%) were of less importance. Unlike public university
libraries where cooperative collection management was very important (90%), for
private university libraries cooperative collection management was of much less
importance (37%).