When people find the right information, they can achieve breakthroughs in their personal, academic and professional lives.

ILL community members understand better than anyone that the perfect piece of the knowledge puzzle can come from just about anywhere. But how can you build the best connections—both professional and technological—to the answers your users need?

Join ILL colleagues and OCLC staff to share the latest in resource sharing technology and best-in-class approaches to patron service and interlibrary loan workflows. As a strong community of ILL librarians, we can apply the principles of resource sharing to our own knowledge and professional development. As part of this group, you’ll find ways to improve operational efficiencies, save time, and better connect end users to the information they need to make their own breakthroughs possible. It’s a unique opportunity to interact with a very specific and knowledgeable community of professionals.

Katie Birch, Executive Director, Resource Sharing

Welcome

“I invite you to join us at the 2017 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference – Sharing Breakthroughs. We are excited for the opportunity to expand the ILLiad Conference and bring together libraries across the ILLiad, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldCat Navigator and VDX communities. We’ll share our learnings and make breakthroughs together, in the areas of software, services, processes and professional development. I look forward to seeing you there.”

KATIE BIRCH
Executive Director, Resource Sharing at OCLC

Who should attend?

Members and leaders of the following departments and focus areas will benefit from conference attendance:

  • Access Services
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • Resource Sharing
  • Document Delivery Services
  • Borrowing/Lending
  • Circulation Services
  • Systems Administrator/Library IT

Librarians using the following solutions should also attend:

  • ILLiad
  • WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
  • WorldCat Navigator
  • OCLC VDX

Program Committee

Respected leaders from the resource sharing community are helping to shape the conference program. We sincerely appreciate their industry expertise and partnership.

Tina Baich

Tina Baich

Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

CJ de Jong

CJ de Jong

University of Alberta

Mike Hawthorne

Mike Hawthorne

Wayne State University

Collette Mak

Collette Mak

University of Notre Dame

Cassie Maringer

Cassie Maringer

Washington County Cooperative Library Services

Lori Smith

Lori Smith

Colorado State Library

Stephanie Spires

Stephanie Spires

Atlas Systems

Christa Starck

Christa Starck

OCLC


Thank you to our conference sponsors.

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