The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative

Update: STAR Checklist back online

We know you’ve been missing it, and now it’s back! Consider participating if you haven’t already, and get your STAR!

Congratulations to the University of West Georgia’s Ingram Library who completed the STAR Checklist and is now a Rethinking Resource Sharing STAR!

See the complete list of STAR libraries and complete the checklist!

Due to technological mishaps all too common in our networked world, the Rethinking Resource Sharing STAR Checklist is currently unavailable.  We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to have the Checklist back soon.

If you have questions or concerns, please write to Evan Simpson or resourcesharingstar@gmail.com.  Thanks for your patience!

Congratulations to Adelphi University’s Swirbul Library who completed the STAR Checklist and is now a Rethinking Resource Sharing STAR!

See the complete list of STAR libraries and complete the checklist!

Discovery to Delivery: Rethinking Resource Sharing Friday, June 28, 2013 a preconference to the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

Registration now open

Anya Arnold, Orbis Cascade Alliance, will deliver the keynote address on the latest trends in discovery to delivery. The program includes three panels on the topics: State of the art in discovery; Costs and innovation for ILL and eBooks; and Innovations and trends in physical delivery.

This event will bring together discussions of the critical components of resource sharing in the academic and public library environments, including innovations in discovery and ILSs as well as trends in both physical and virtual delivery of library materials to users. Attendees will learn about the latest resource sharing theories, the finances of ILL and ebooks and the latest trends in physical delivery to provide more, faster access to patrons most efficiently.

This resource sharing preconference jointly presented by ASCLA’s Physical Delivery Interest Group and RUSA’s Rethinking Resource Sharing Steering Committee.

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Registration now open for this preconference to the Annual Conference in Chicago.

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Thanks to our friends at the Tampa Bay Library Consortium, Rethinking Resource Sharing has a new website! 

Here you’ll find information about Rethinking Resource Sharing, our Charter, our membership, and our activities.  Please bear with us as the site develops!