Rethinking Resource Sharing...
Inspiring Librarians... Empowering People
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative is an ad hoc group that advocates for a revolution in the way libraries conduct resource sharing. The group has written a Manifesto for Resource Sharing, which outlines a set of principles that support more open resource sharing.
Rethinking Resource Sharing event in Australia: "Collective Wealth, Global Sharing, Global Resources", September 1st - 3rd, 2010. Please check the ALIA Access 2010 website (look for specific stream) for more information, preliminary program. Registration is now open.
This stream will be opened by RRS Steering Committee chair Poul Erlandsen.
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative has published the new Rethinking Resource Sharing Plan for 2012.
The Rethinking Resource Sharing initiative did some exciting things in 2008-09. Read about them in the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative Annual Report 2008-09.
Rethinking Event at ALA Annual
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative, in cooperation with ASCLA (Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies) is presenting a preconference at the 2010 ALA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
The preconference "Giving People What They Want: Information Access in Libraries and Beyond" will feature a thought-provoking examination of technology and how its pervasive development is challenging traditional approaches to resource-sharing and content access. Presenters will examine users’ different information-seeking behaviors and how they differ significantly from how libraries have traditionally provided information. Participants will also discuss technological limitations inherent in sharing resources across disparate systems; innovative approaches that are broadening the definition of resource-sharing; and the impact of digital publishing, library end-user research, and innovative implementations of resource-sharing.
"Giving People What They Want", which is open to and librarian or library staff involved or interested in the field of resource sharing, will be held 9a.m.-5p.m. on Friday, June 25 at one of the ALA conference hotels in Washington, D.C. Featured speakers at the event will include Lee Rainie, director at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Washington, D.C., and Marshall Breeding, director for innovative technologies and research at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University .
To register visit the ALA registration website.
View the full ASCLA press release.