Rethinking Resource Sharing.
Inspiring Librarians. Empowering People.
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative is an ad hoc group that advocates for a revolution in the way libraries conduct resource sharing. The group has written a Manifesto for Resource Sharing, which outlines a set of principles that support more open resource sharing.
To help encourage creative thinking related to resource sharing, the group is sponsoring three Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards in 2008. Each Award recipient will receive a $1,000 USD cash award. The application deadline is May 15, 2008.
Want to learn more? Attend the upcoming ALA Preconference in Anaheim, CA, Throw Off Your Policies and Expose Your Resources: Rethinking Resource Sharing or one of the many other upcoming Rethinking Resource Sharing presentations.
- May 6-9, 2008 – Massachusetts Library Association, Falmouth, MA (Barbara Preece and Gail Wanner)
- May 14-16, 2008 – Maryland Library Association, Ocean City, MD (Tanner Wray and Wendy Dobson)
- May 22-23, 2008 5th Conference on Internet Document Delivery and Inter-library Cooperation, Bolzano, Italy, "Tools, best practices and copyright", (Poul Erlandsen)
- May 23, 2008 – Michigan Library Association Workshop, It’s Mine You Can’t Have It: Resource Sharing Now and in the Future, Lansing Community College West Campus, Lansing, MI (Anne Beaubien)
- June 9, 2008 – NELINET Annual Resource Sharing Meeting, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH (Tanner Wray)
- June 27, 2008 – ALA RUSA STARS Preconference, Throw Off Your Policies and Expose Your Resources: Rethinking Resource Sharing, Anaheim, CA
- August 6-7, 2008 – IFLA Satellite Conference, Rethinking Access to Information: Evolving Perspectives on Information Content and Delivery, Boston, MA (Poul Erlandsen, Brenda Bailey-Hainer, and Gail Wanner)
- October 6-8, 2008 - Nordic ILL Conference, Stockholm, Sweden (Brenda Bailey-Hainer)