This guest post is by Lars Leon, Past-Chair of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative and Resource Sharing Librarian (retired) at the University of Kansas. He can be reached at lleon@ku.edu. Resource Sharing connects us. It’s… Reflections on RRSI’s History and Impact by Lars Leon
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… We’re back! (Really.)
RRSI Steering Committee members Lars Leon and Tom Bruno have recently hosted some virtual conversations on the future of ILL. You can find information on the takeaways of those conversations on the RRSI April Future… Recent RRSI Virtual Conversations on the Future of ILL
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… Still on 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… Pandemic Pause
We’re pleased to accept nominations for the 2019 Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Award. Thank you to Atlas Systems for generously sponsoring the $500 cash award and citation. Nominations due May 24 (extended from April 29,… Accepting Innovation Award Nominations
How do you define a filled ILL Borrow Copy request? Does it matter if we use different definitions? What other types of stats are worth exploring? Click on the Report Definition link above to read… Best Practices+ for ILL stat reporting?
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… Welcome our new Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect!
NEW ORLEANS, June 25, 2018 —The Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) Initiative has announced two winners of the 2018 Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Award. They are the IDS Project for IDS Logic, a highly customizable service… Announcing the 2018 Innovation Award Winners!
The second post in our series of “Thoughts on the RRSI STAR Checklist” comes from ALA RUSA STARS Rethinking Resource Sharing Policies Committee member, Ronnie Broadfoot, on questions 96-100.
Q96: ILL staff are careful when scanning to check for quality.
Q97: Interlibrary loan department ships materials packaged to protect contents (either themselves or through a mailroom) and to the appropriate address.
Q98: Library attempts to promptly contact and consult lending or borrowing library when any problems arise.
Q99: Library supports ILL department by providing sufficient staff and appropriate equipment and supplies.
Q100: Library pursues inventive methods to get items returned (i.e. fine moratoria, etc.)
STAR Checklist questions 96-100 involve an extension of the mutual trust between a library and its users to other libraries and their users. Trust is a key component in libraries; users trust the staff to do their best in providing access to materials and to provide the best possible service and the library trusts its users to treat library materials (and, one hopes, library staff) with the utmost respect. Thoughts on the RRSI STAR Checklist #2