Presentations
It’s Here! The OCLC Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator
Watch this webinar to learn about the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator, a free internet-based tool that has the potential to act as a virtual real-time ILL cost study.
Topics: Resource Sharing, Works in Progress
OCLC RLP Roundtable: Art and Architecture Group
virtual
This presentation features responses to a special set of Round Robin Questions for 2020, suggested by the Art and Architecture Group community, and a report on a forthcoming OCLC Research Project focused on art and museum libraries. The Roundtable agenda also included updates on the Art Discovery Group Catalog and on new draft protocols for sharing special collections.
Topics: Libraries, Archives and Museums, Archives and Special Collections
OCLC RLP SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group Update (video)
In this webinar, members of the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group provide an update on the development of a framework of protocols for the interlending of special collections materials among SHARES libraries.
Topics: SHARES, Archives and Special Collections
OCLC RLP SHARES Policy Rethink: Outcomes and Next Steps (video)
The SHARES resource sharing consortium’s leadership and participants recently concluded a year-long exercise aimed at rethinking SHARES policies and values. The goal of the exercise was to ensure that SHARES remains on track to play a vibrant role in a resource sharing future where the emphasis is always on the patron, and where consortia will increasingly be the venue for the advancement of library collections and services. Learn about the work in this webinar.
Topics: SHARES, Works in Progress
Resource Sharing of Art Materials: Theory and Practice
Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Massie describes SHARES and explores the ways art libraries have shared research and materials through SHARES over the years.
Topics: Resource Sharing, SHARES, Libraries, Archives and Museums
Sharing Special Collections is an Idea Whose Time Has Come (video)
In this webinar, learn how libraries involved in SHARES, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and the Ivy Plus Libraries have found some solutions to the tricky issues of loaning legacy formats such as a/v, microformat, or curriculum, created some freely available tools, and implemented programs to facilitate the sharing of these rare, and often deeply needed, items.
Topics: SHARES, Works in Progress
ILL Cost Calculator
View this webinar recording to learn about our plans for a powerful new ILL Cost Calculator tool that we expect to start beta testing within a few weeks.
Topics: Shared Print, Works in Progress
A Glimpse of the ILL Yeti: Stalking the Big, Big Picture of System-wide Collection Sharing
Program Officer Dennis Massie gave an overview of how OCLC Research is analyzing five years’ worth of innovative collection sharing by the eleven members of the Borrow Direct consortium.
Topics: Shared Print, Works in Progress