Announcements – Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:09:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/RRSI-small-icon-150x150.png Announcements – Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org 32 32 We’re back! (Really.) https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/were-back-really/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:41:55 +0000 https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/franklin/?p=2096 We’re back! (Really.)]]> You might be forgiven for viewing the “Coming Soon” sign hanging precariously over our resource sharing ‘front window’ with just a wee bit of suspicion. After all it has been, as the kids say, a minute. However, “Now” is the new “Soon” and the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative (RRSI), an ad hoc group that advocates for a complete reconsideration of the way libraries conduct resource sharing, has indeed returned.

Perhaps you are:

  • Completely new to the library world and just starting out in interlibrary loan (known, alternately, as resource sharing) and want help and pointers for learning the basics.
  • Someone who has worked in libraries for a fair few years, but has recently shifted to working in resource sharing, or (in this era of workplace consolidations) has found interlibrary loan now under your umbrella of responsibilities and are looking to deepen your knowledge and understanding. 
  • An experienced resource sharing practitioner and are looking to further refine your best practices, or to glean new information to promote the values of resource sharing and advocate for the importance of interlibrary loan up the org chart within your institution, or to share your wisdom with the broader community.

Maybe you are at:

  • an academic research library
  • a public library
  • a medical library 
  • a law library
  • a tribal library 
  • an art library
  • a special library 
  • a museum
  • an archive
  • or are a member of a library consortium

RRSI is here for you. 

Manifesto 

Et hoc credimus – and this we believe – the RRSI statement of intent and hope. Now rethought and rejuvenated (and open for public comment).

The Checklist

How good are your best practices? What would you like to learn about interlibrary loan for your shop? Would you like to see what other institutions are doing, in order to help you advocate for similar services at your library? The Checklist is actively being refreshed and updated for you. 

You are RRSI. We are RRSI. And we are back!

Mark your calendars!

Please register to join us at one (or both!) of the upcoming Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative (RRSI) town halls to be (re)introduced to RRSI and discuss the updated Manifesto. See our Events page for full details.

November 19th, 2025 (11am ET): https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CKO9VYdxR2yq0tEspnI0vA

December 3rd, 2025 (4pm ET): https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FfD20_9iTii_R_CFG0hHNA 

]]> Still on Pandemic Pause https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/still-on-pandemic-pause/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:32:00 +0000 https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/?p=1607 Still on Pandemic Pause]]> As members of the RRSI Steering Committee, along with all of you, anticipate what a new academic year brings for school and academic libraries around the world, the work of RRSI remains mostly on pause while we navigate the nuance the pandemic has brought to our work. Lars Leon and Tom Bruno hosted some virtual conversations regarding the future of ILL in April (see RRSI April Future ILL Virtual Conversations for the findings of those conversations). They are planning to host more conversations like these in the future, so stay tuned for announcements through various email distribution lists and social media platforms!

]]> Pandemic Pause https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/pandemic-pause/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:05:00 +0000 https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/?p=1598 Pandemic Pause]]> As many of us around the world are experiencing something unprecedented and trying to figure out how to navigate our work under the circumstances of a pandemic, members of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Committee are with you in figuring out that work. To that end, we have put together a new page with resources here: COVID-19

The RRSI will be stepping back from its work to help out at our own institutions while we all try to grapple with this new and prolonged reality. Take care, all of you.

]]> Welcome our new Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect! https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/welcome-our-new-vice-chair-chair-elect/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:23:20 +0000 https://rethinkingresourcesharing.org/?p=1244 Welcome our new Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect!]]> The RRSI Steering Committee welcomes Jen Salvo-Eaton, Head of Resource Sharing & Graduate Student Services at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries, as our Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.  She brings some exciting new perspectives and energy to our efforts. She will be Vice-Chair from January through June 2019 and then step into the Chair role from July 2019 through June 2020.

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