SHARES Advisory Groups

SHARES Executive Group

The SHARES Executive Group represents the interests of all participants in SHARES. It advises OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership on long-term planning for SHARES services, identifies needs for new or revised policies for resource-sharing activities, develops ideas for program enhancements and addresses strategic directions.

Eight participants are elected by the SHARES liaisons and serve for two years; three of the seats are allotted to members from museum, law, and non-North American institutions. Every year four representatives are elected.

Name	Institution	E-mail Address
Carl Jones	University of Edinburgh	Carl.Jones@ed.ac.uk
Zack Lane	Columbia University	zl2114@columbia.edu
Lars Leon	University of Kansas	lleon@ku.edu
Deborah Mitoraj	University of Michigan Law	heiden@umich.edu
Mike Paxton	University of Chicago	mpaxton@uchicago.edu
Elise Thornley	Binghamton University	thornley@binghamton.edu
Kristin Walker	University of Texas at Austin	Kristin.Walker@austin.utexas.edu
Lynn Wexler	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	lwexler@mfah.org

Working Groups

SHARES Participants have frequent opportunities to come together with peers to find solutions to commonly held collection sharing challenges. Calls for volunteers go out on the SHARES-L discussion listserv least each time a new effort is launched.