Presentations
SHARES discussion: Sharing Special Collections—Borrowing, lending, and packaging physical items
virtual
View this recording for an overview of the tools used in borrowing, lending, packaging, and shipping materials, compiled by the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group.
Topics: Works in Progress, SHARES
SHARES discussion: Sharing Special Collections—Scanning portions and whole works
virtual
View this recording for an overview of the tools used in scanning special collections materials compiled by the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group.
Topics: Works in Progress, SHARES
Implementing the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Principles and Protocols: Overview
virtual
View this webinar for an introduction to the Principles and Protocols for Sharing Special Collections through Interlibrary Loan.
Topics: Works in Progress, SHARES, Resource Sharing, Research Library Partnership
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, Research Library Partnership, Works in Progress
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, Research Library Partnership, Works in Progress