Welcome to the newest STAR libraries! Babson College Bemidji State University Library The College of New Jersey Dalhousie University Libraries Fondulac Public Library District Hesston Public Library Holy Names University … “Besides some new marketing materials and me having reference…
Author: Rethinking Resource Sharing
Call for Nominations: 2016 Innovation Award
The Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) Innovation Award recognizes and honors an individual or institution for changes they have made to improve users’ access to information through resource sharing in their library, consortium, state, province or country. The purpose of the…
STAR Checklist Version 2 is Here!
The live link to the STAR Checklist (Version 2) of best practices in interlibrary loan/library resource sharing is now available! By reviewing these checklist items, you can start valuable local discussions about all that your library is doing to provide…
STAR Checklist Version 2 Launches in January
An expanded STAR Checklist of best practices in library resource sharing is being launched January 2016. By going through the questions, interlibrary loan specialists can consider their policies, practices and services and think/rethink how to best serve their users. The…
#RRSChat Storify Archive Updated
Thanks to everyone who joined us for today’s #RRSChat. and a big thank you to all of the participants during our third successful Fall series of Twitter chats! Due to popular demand, we’re going to try and continue the monthly…
Links to #RRSChats
Thanks again to everyone who joined us for today’s inaugural #RRSChat for the Fall 2015 season: “Ebooks and Beyond!”, with special thanks to Ryan Litsey and Kenny Ketner from Texas Tech University for sharing their experiences developing and managing the…
#RRSChat Fall 2015 Schedule!
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Committee is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our third series of monthly Twitter chats this Fall, starting next Wednesday, September 30th, from 12-1pm Eastern Time. Our first topic will be: “E-Books And Beyond!”…
Texas Tech University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Greater Western Library Alliance Win the 2015 RRS Innovation Award for Occam’s Reader
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27, 2015 —The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative has announced that the winners of the Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) 2015 Innovation Award are Texas Tech University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Greater Western Library Alliance…
Announcing RRSChat Times and Topics for Fall 2014
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Committee is excited to announce that we will be hosting another series of monthly Twitter chats this Fall, starting next Monday (September 29th) at 2pm EST. Our first topic will be: “Let’s Talk About Workflow”. How…
Let’s fix EU Copyright!
“The European Commission is thinking about the future of copyright in the EU, and your input can push them into the right direction.” Fair use and the right for libraries to share information is part of copyright law in the…