Lending

“1. What is RSCVD? RSCVD is an international resource sharing (RS) service based in a community of volunteer librarians whose objective is helping libraries to ensure universal and equitable access to information. They use the open source software purpose-designed TALARIA. RSCVD’s mission is to ensure equal access to information, particularly during times of crisis, through

“RSCVD is a Community of volunteer libraries providing high-quality, open and collaborative resource-sharing service to help librarians to ensure universal and equitable access to information.” “The RSCVD initiative was designed by members of the IFLA Document Delivery Resource Sharing (DDRS) Committee during the pandemic with the aim of supporting libraries unable to access collections due to

The RUSA STARS International ILL Committee published an International ILL Shipping & Customs webpage hub in response to the chaos caused by the immediate termination of the de minimis exemption in the United States. The hub contains a variety of resources pertaining to international shipping.  The hub also contains a link to a Google form

“From the International ILL Toolkit, tips on searching in foreign languages including truncation, transliteration and translation. This video was produced by the RUSA STARS International Interlibrary Loan Committee.” – link to video page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac8eE7XumRs

“A brief tutorial to sending library materials across borders.  This video was produced by the RUSA STARS International Interlibrary Loan Committee.” – link to video page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yytjRqvr86U

A video that walks through some basic fundamental components of the International ILL Toolkit. “This video was produced by the RUSA STARS International Interlibrary Loan Committee.” – link to video page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUQ9CE3PGU

“A video tutorial introducing users to three things in the toolkit. This video was produced by the RUSA STARS International Interlibrary Loan Committee.” – link to video page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxVZUdhJuP4

“The International ILL Toolkit is a freely available, crowd-sourced effort, initiated by the OCLC SHARES resource sharing consortium, designed to promote and enable greater ease of global sharing among libraries.  Learn about the origins of the Toolkit and how it grew into an elaborate, multifaceted set of resources with contributions from libraries around the world.  Explore the components of the International ILL Toolkit:   An ever-growing

This presentation was given by Tom Bruno, Director of Access Services, Philadelphia, at the 17th annual IFLA’s Interlending and Document Supply Conference (2022). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUxQ8SWFig