SHARES Working Groups
SHARES Best Practices Working Group
The SHARES Best Practices Working Group is a standing group with rotating membership that works to develop SHARES preferred practices.
A list of specific collection sharing best practices divided into various categories. Each category is presented on a grid consisting of four columns:
- Principle: high-level collection sharing concepts of desired behavior.
- Best – General: specific collection sharing best practices applicable to most any situation or consortium.
- Best Plus – SHARES: specific collection sharing best practices reflecting the enhanced expectations and traditions among SHARES partners.
- The Worst: a chance to vent about pet peeves and perceived crimes against collection sharing humanity.
The inaugural edition of the SHARES Best Practices working Group conceived of, and began assembling, a set of best practices in the following categories:
- General
- About You(r ILL unit)
- Lending
- Borrowing
- Packaging and Shipping
- International Packaging and Shipping
Some categories may not be present on the current version of the Best Practices grid; also, there are no doubt important categories we haven’t thought of yet.
SHARES participants are encouraged to contribute to this effort by:
- Commenting on the Best Practices work by posting to the SHARES-L discussion list or by sending comments to the OCLC SHARES coordinator.
- Using a template to send your own version of the Best Practices grid to the SHARES Best Practices Working Group for review; contact the OCLC SHARES coordinator to receive a copy of the template.
Current Members
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Ralph Baylor |
Frick Collection Art Reference Library |
| Kathy Britt-Rogers | Emory University |
| J. Silvia Cho | CUNY Graduate Center |
| Jennifer Devito |
Stony Brook University |
| Amy Gherardini |
University of Michigan |
| Katharine Haldeman |
Boston University Pappas Law Library |
| Jenny Lee |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| Aimee Lind |
Getty Research Institute |
| Meg Massey |
Pennsylvania State University |
| Autumn Mather |
Art Institute of Chicago |
| David Perry |
Bryn Mawr College |
| Beth Posner |
CUNY Graduate Center |
| John Sandoval |
University of Miami |
| Phoebe Walker |
New York University |
Former Members
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Lapis David Cohen |
University of Pennsylvania |
| Poul Erlandsen | Royal Library of Denmark |
| Caitlin Finlay | Cornell University |
| Angela Galvan |
The OSU Health Sciences Library |
| Matthew Gengler |
Cleveland Museum of Art |
| Amber Glass |
University of Michigan |
| Kurt Munson |
Northwestern University |
| Merle Slyhoff |
University of Pennsylvania's Biddle Law Library |
| Susan Stone |
University of Toronto |
| Elise Thornley |
Binghamton University |
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Policy Rethink
In 2018 and 2019, the SHARES Executive Group engaged with all SHARES participants in rethinking SHARES policies and values.
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