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Bowdoin College Library introduces innovative ILL map to highlight global research
- 10 March 2025
The Bowdoin College Library in Maine has transformed its interlibrary loan (ILL) home page into a captivating visual experience, showcasing the global reach of its ILL services.
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ILLiad selected as the National Library of Medicine's interlibrary loan and document delivery management system
- 14 January 2025
ILLiad has been selected by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, as its interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery management system.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries are now live with OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups
- 10 June 2024
Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) libraries are now live using the new OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups, the state-of-the-art solution that reimagines resource sharing for library groups and consortia.
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More than 1 million copy requests filled by libraries in the Express digital delivery program
- 27 September 2023
Since launch of OCLC’s Express digital delivery program in January 2021, Express libraries have filled more than a million copy requests in an average of ten hours.
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OCLC partners with the Big Ten Academic Alliance to advance new OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups
- 27 March 2023
OCLC is partnering with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) to advance development of OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups, a new solution that reimagines resource sharing with a focus on library groups and consortia.
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Québec universities move library resource sharing to OCLC's Tipasa
- 01 November 2022
Member libraries of the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec (PBUQ), a partnership of Québec university libraries, are now using OCLC's Tipasa interlibrary loan management system to serve 18 Québec member universities.
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03 June 2025
Offering more choice and flexibility: Introducing OCLC’s modern consortial borrowing
A one-hour webinar about OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups—a new modern consortial borrowing solution that expedites delivery of digital and print items to library users
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 May 2025
Putting the pieces together: How resource sharing in WMS simplifies borrowing and lending through the world’s largest network
A 30-minute webinar on how OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS)—an advanced library services platform—seamlessly integrates resource sharing for both electronic and print resources
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2025
RSC25 | Making sense of all your data: Working with statistics across systems
This session presents an overview of how the City University of New York (CUNY) reconciles data from all their resource sharing programs to get a more accurate and descriptive picture of their resource sharing activities.
- Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2025
RSC25 | Resource sharing in the Québec University Library Partnership
In this session, the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec will share their experience of collaboratively configuring group circulation in WMS, and Tipasa functionalities. They will also go over the partnership with OCLC to enhance resource sharing experience among their members.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 May 2025
RSC25 | OCR they? A data project to estimate how many ILL borrowing documents have optical character recognition
This session will present a project where the University of Minnesota Libraries evaluated PDF files delivered to patrons to get a better sense of how many documents have OCR versus those that do not. They will share findings, including the unexpected issues that surfaced.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 May 2025
RSC25 | The side effects of ILL: How ILL requests sparked collaboration and impacted holdings
University Libraries staff from Information Systems, Cataloging and Metadata, Electronic Resources, and Interlibrary Loan at the University of Memphis Libraries will share how interlibrary lending has initiated short and long-term projects that improve the experiences of our libraries users.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 April 2025
RSC25 | The custom holdings connection: Enhancing ILL efficiency
In this session, we’ll discuss how to design and update custom holdings for ILL borrowing to make the best use of automations offered by OCLC, take advantage of consortial borrowing agreements, and explore new borrowing opportunities.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 April 2025
RSC25 | Enhancing visual literacy for navigating ILL services
This session will focus on creating and implementing audio-visual aids that help users navigate ILL services. We will discuss assessing this need, developing scripts and images that boost user confidence while promoting inclusivity, and incorporating captions and jargon definitions to improve accessibility.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 April 2025
RSC25 | ILL: Intra-library Liaising to improve Interlibrary Loan
This session will explore ILL service examples and provide tips on how your ILL operation can work with—and often support and learn from—your colleagues throughout the entire library to improve services, collections, and employee enrichment.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 March 2025
Connecting the Dots: Harnessing the power of resource sharing for your library
Watch a 30-minute overview of how your library can provide patrons with extensive access to materials from libraries’ collections using OCLC’s innovative resource sharing tools
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 March 2025
RSC25 | ILL survival guide: Essential tips for new professionals
Join our experienced panel of ILL professionals as they share the insider knowledge they wish they'd known when starting out. We'll demystify ILL terminology, explore networking strategies, discuss training resources and plans, and uncover the unwritten rules of successful ILL operations.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 March 2025
RSC25 | Advancing resource sharing: OCLC & Atlas Systems’ ongoing commitment to innovation
Join OCLC and Atlas Systems, Inc. for an in-depth look at the recent advancements shaping interlibrary loan services. Learn how the evolution of smart fulfillment, powered by data and machine learning, and now AI, is driving smarter automation, optimizing fulfillment options, and providing faster delivery.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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08 May 2024
RSC 24 | Advancing resource sharing: OCLC and Atlas Systems innovations in APIs and AI
Join OCLC and Atlas Systems, Inc. for an update on our efforts to innovate resource sharing.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 May 2024
RSC24 Lightning sessions | Building bridges beyond borders, Emerging Nations Article Exchange Program
Join us as we explore the RUSA STARS International ILL Committee's global resource sharing survey data, as well as learn more about the Library of Congress’s Emerging Nations Article Exchange Program.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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24 April 2024
RSC24 Lightning sessions | Win-win purchasing, Book digitization at UConn Library, Tiered approach to borrowing
Learn about the benefits of integrating a purchase-on-demand pathway into your existing ILL procedures for physical loan requests, a UConn Library pilot project to re-envision the way we serve patrons with print disabilities, and the University of North Texas Libraries’ tiered system approach to ILL borrowing.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 April 2024
RSC24 | The power of collaboration: Cross-departmental cooperation and resilience
Join staff members from three institutions as we explore the joys, frustrations, and surprises from our collaborative experiences.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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27 March 2024
RSC24 | Forming a more perfect union: The groundbreaking harmonization of resource sharing policies across and within Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries
In this session, we’ll talk about the creation and composition of the new BTAA Resource Sharing Agreement that breaks down barriers to access and the new Big Ten Scanning Standards that serve as a model for others.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 March 2024
RSC24 Lightning sessions | It’s dangerous to go alone, Streamlining access, From silo to collaboration
Hear from library staff at the Texas Tech University Libraries, the Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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