In November 2025, the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative (RRSI) Reboot Team shared a draft of RRSI’s updated manifesto. The Reboot Team hosted two virtual town hall events to foster community discussion and gather feedback on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…