Digital Sharing

General

• Videos
  • Chapters all: Handling Larger Digital Requests, presented by Sam Lohmann,
    Reference Coordinator & Information Access Librarian, Washington State University Vancouver; Chris Wiley-Smith, Interlibrary Loan & Reserves Specialist, Washington State University-Vancouver, NWILL, 2024

Accessibility

• Please see the Accessibility page of Shared Sphere for more information!

Controlled Digital Lending (CDL)       

• General
  • Reading
    • Building a Collaborative Digital Collection: A Necessary Evolution in Libraries by Michelle M. Wu, 2011
    • A White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books, by David R. Hansen and Kyle K. Courtney, 2018
    • Position Statement on Controlled Digital Lending by Libraries, by Lila Bailey, Kyle K. Courtney, David R. Hansen, Mary Minow, Jason Schulz, and Michelle Wu, 2018
    • Controlled Digital Lending Bibliography, hosted by Library Futures
    • Digital Lending Toolkit, created and hosted by the Boston Library Consortium

• Hachette v. Internet Archive
  • Reading
    • The Hachette v. Internet Archive page on the Boston Library Consortium’s Digital Lending Toolkit offers a timeline of events
• Futures of CDL post-Hachette
  • Reading
    • The Models of CDL on the Boston Library Consortium’s Digital Lending Toolkit offers examples of CDL pathways
    • CDL’s Future Depends on Us All: A Response to Scholarly Kitchen’s “Lessons Learned from a Fair Use Defeat”, by Charlie Barlow, 2024
    • Controlled Digital Lending Is Still Not Dead; It Just Got a New Job: Saving Interlibrary Loan from Tariff Chaos, by Kyle. K Courtney, 2025

Copyright       

• Please see the Copyright page of Shared Sphere for more information!

Licensing       

• General
  • The Boston Library Consortium’s Digital Lending Toolkit’s Section, “Acquiring Digital Resources,” contains ample resources regarding electronic material licensing and purchasing.

Scanning       

Forthcoming. 🙂