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Resource Sharing / SHARES

The International ILL Toolkit: a classic community-working-together story

December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 - by Dennis Massie

The International ILL Toolkit is a freely available crowd-sourced tool, initiated by members of the OCLC SHARES resource sharing consortium and designed to make global resource sharing easier.  The Toolkit’s …

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Research Library Partnership / Resource Sharing / SHARES

Frequently asked questions: resource sharing practice in the time of COVID-19, Phase I

December 18, 2020January 15, 2021 - by Dennis Massie

I’ve written previously in this space about the interlibrary loan community’s amazing efforts to keep collection sharing services running in spite of the unprecedented disruptions wrought by the global pandemic. …

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Research Library Partnership / Resource Sharing / SHARES

Managing interlibrary loan returns and overdues during the pandemic: emerging consensus from the SHARES resource sharing consortium

September 14, 2020October 7, 2020 - by Dennis Massie

Since March 2020, when COVID-19 forced most libraries to shut down, send staff home to work remotely, and focus on providing all services digitally, I’ve been bringing together members of …

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Research Library Partnership / Resource Sharing / SHARES

The Interlibrary Loan Community Mobilizes — Mostly from Home — to Meet the COVID-19 Crisis

April 3, 2020September 18, 2020 - by Dennis Massie

As every aspect of our lives is disrupted by the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been moved, inspired, and enlightened by accounts of various groups and communities joining together, under trying …

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Research Library Partnership

Creating accessible digital exhibits – a conversation

June 10, 2019February 3, 2021 - by Dennis Massie

Recently I hosted a virtual conversation, open to staff at all OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions about creating interactive digital exhibits that are accessible and inclusive.  “Accessible and inclusive” in …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Resource Sharing

Seeking a Few Brass Tacks: Measuring the Value of Resource Sharing

June 22, 2017June 27, 2017 - by Dennis Massie - 2 Comments.

At the two most recent American Library Association conferences, I’ve met with a small ad hoc group of librarians to discuss how we might measure and demonstrate the value that …

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Archives and Special Collections / Resource Sharing

Can we measure and demonstrate the value of sharing collections?

January 18, 2017September 4, 2020 - by Dennis Massie

In the spring of 2016, Brandeis University’s interim university librarian Matthew Sheehy and I engaged in some informal back-and-forth about the kinds of questions that can be answered about collection-sharing …

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Resource Sharing / SHARES

“Greening ILL Practices” study completed

January 28, 2010October 12, 2020 - by Dennis Massie - 1 Comment

In September I hired a firm of environmental impact consultants, California Environmental Associates, to conduct a three-month study of interlibrary loan processes, with an eye toward lowering the carbon footprint …

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Collective Collections / Modeling new services

Google settlement, OCA, and “lending” digital books

October 31, 2008October 12, 2020 - by Dennis Massie

This article, from earlier this week in the San Jose Mercury News, deserves a wider audience:   http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_10839879?nclick_check=1   Thanks be to my OCLC Research colleague Ricky Erway for pointing …

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Collective Collections / Resource Sharing / SHARES

A new work flow economy in resource sharing

January 18, 2008September 18, 2020 - by Dennis Massie

In November I surveyed the participants in SHARES, a resource sharing consortium for about 90 RLG Programs partner institutions, to find out how they are coping with the pressures of …

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