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Date extended! Call for Submissions – Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards
Posted by Jennifer on 2 March, 2009 in ILL
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative was started to advocate for a complete rethink of the way libraries conduct resource sharing in the context of the global internet revolution. In order to showcase resource sharing innovation, the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative has created an award to encourage libraries and librarians all over the world to make [...]
Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards 2009
Posted by Jennifer on 13 January, 2009 in ILL
The Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) Innovation Awards recognizes and honors an individual or institution for changes they made to improve users’ access to information through resource sharing in their library, consortium, state or country. It is hoped that the award will encourage libraries and librarians to make changes in how they do resource sharing to [...]
OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing has updated documentation
Posted by Jennifer on 3 September, 2008 in ILL, OCLC
The WorldCat Resource Sharing User Guide is now available online. This document is your complete resource for information on all aspects of resource sharing and interlibrary loan procedures through OCLC’s WorldCat Resource Sharing system.
Some sample topics:
The Basic Interlibrary Loan Cycle
Access and Authorizations
Additional Loan Cycles
OCLC Policies Directory
OCLC ILL Fee Management Service
Creating ILL Requests
Choosing Lenders
Completing a Loan [...]
How to find AV lenders on the web?
Posted by Jennifer on 16 May, 2008 in Educational Services, ILL, OCLC
Russell Palmer, Educational Services Resource Sharing instructor, offers a few ways to search for AV lenders for interlibrary loans. Using OCLC Policies Directory, if you choose advanced searcch, the “AV” limit on the PD simply leads you to institutions that have a policy, for or against, lending AV. So here is Rusty’s advice…
Members can generate [...]