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General Introduction
- Books/Chapters:
- Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 3rd Edition, edited by Cherié L Weible & Karen L. Janke, 2011
- Ch. 1: Interlibrary Loan: Evolution to Revolution, by Margaret W. Ellingson and Susan D. Morris, pp. 1 – 16
- Ch. 5: Management of Interlibrary Loan, by Cindy Kristof, pp. 69 – 92
- Ch. 7: The Future of Interlibrary Loan, by Cyril Oberland, pp. 109 – 120
- Resource Sharing Today: A Practical Guide to Interlibrary Loan, Consortial Circulation, and Global Cooperation, by Corrine Nyquist, 2014
- Ch. 1: Teaching One Another ILL since the Library Schools Don’t Do It, p. 3 – 14
- Ch. 5: Rethinking Library Resource Sharing: The Future of Interlibrary Loans, pp. 55 – 72
- Resources Anytime, Anywhere: How Interlibrary Loan Becomes Resource Sharing, 2017 by Ryan Litsey
- Ch. 1: The Changing Roles of ILL Staff, Supply-Chain Management, pp. 1 – 35
- Ch. 2: Technology and The Evolution of Resource Sharing, pp. 37 – 55
- Ch. 3: Resources Anytime, Anywhere, pp. 57 – 95
- Ch. 4: Resource Sharing, pp. 97 – 116
- Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 3rd Edition, edited by Cherié L Weible & Karen L. Janke, 2011
- Competencies and Suggested Guidelines:
- RUSA STARS Professional Competencies for Resource Sharing Practitioners, published by ALA
- Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States With Explanatory Text, published by ALA
- International Resource Sharing and Document Delivery: Principles and Guidelines for Procedure, published by IFLA
- Rethinking Resource Sharing Manifesto 2026- Edition, published July, 2026
- Journal Articles:
- The interlibrary loan librarian, by Virginia Boucher, in Information Discovery and Delivery, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 1989
- Implications for Library Organization and Guideposts for Education and Training: The Many Hats of the Interlibrary Loan Librarian, by Wayne A. Pedersen, in Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, Vol. 17, Issue 4, 2007.
- Library information sharing. Best practices and trends. Challenges and prospects, by Beth Posner, 2017.
- Videos:
- A Newbie’s Experience: Sharing Resource Sharing Resources, presented by Jacob Long, Interlibrary Loan Coordinator, Bryn Mawr College, at NWILL, September 2024.
- Staying Current:
- Borrower and Lender Be, an organization managed by Dennis Massie (CHO – Chief Hijinks Officer)
- Holds free, weekly virtual meetings open to all members of the resource sharing community, called “Hive Minds.” To sign up or for more information, please contact Dennis at dennis@borrowerandlenderbe.org
- IDS Network Conference Archive, recordings of previous IDS Network presentations
- Northwest Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing (NWILL) Conference YouTube, archive of past NWILL presentations, usually updated in January of each year
- Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative (RRSI) Bulletin, an open access RS journal
- RUSA STARS Updates, a news section for anything pertinent to the STARS Section of the ALA
- Borrower and Lender Be, an organization managed by Dennis Massie (CHO – Chief Hijinks Officer)
Borrowing
- Books/Chapters:
- Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 3rd Edition, edited by Cherié L Weible & Karen L. Janke
- Ch. 2: Borrowing Workflow Basics, by Denise Forro, p. 17 – 36
- Resource Sharing Today: A Practical Guide to Interlibrary Loan, Consortial Circulation, and Global Cooperation, by Corrine Nyquist
- Ch. 8: Buy or Borrow? Getting What the Patron Needs, p. 97 – 108
- Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 3rd Edition, edited by Cherié L Weible & Karen L. Janke
- Journal Articles:
- Please submit!
- Videos:
- IDS Network’s Online Learning Institute: Borrowing 101, presented by Megan Gaffney
Lending
- Books/Chapters:
- Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 3rd Edition, edited by Cherié L Weible & Karen L. Janke
- Ch. 3: Lending Workflow Basics, by Amy R. Paulus, p. 37 – 50
- Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook, 3rd Edition, edited by Cherié L Weible & Karen L. Janke
- Journal Articles:
- Please submit!
- Videos:
- IDS Network’s Online Learning Institute: Lending 101, presented by J. Silvia Cho