A few months ago an interested group of library professionals decided it was “Time to Think Again About Resource Sharing.” A discussion paper was drafted and they have been seeking input from the library community through various discussion sessions.

During the July 20th LiLI Advisory Board meeting, I asked the members of the advisory group to share their thoughts in response to to the discussion questions set forth in the paper. Their responses can be found in the minutes of that meeting. *Editor's Note: These meeting minutes have been archived and are no longer available online.  If you have any questions, please contact us.

I have no doubt library services are going to change in the future. The challenge is in anticipating how those changes will occur. So, what do you think? Think about resource sharing in the broadest possible way–beyond ILL, beyond what we already know. What is your response to these questions?

How do you define resource sharing?
How are libraries doing resource sharing now?
If you could change anything, what would you change?
What are Google and Amazon doing to resource sharing?
Do you see blurring role between circulation-based sharing and mediated ILL?
How do you see resource sharing changing in the next 5 years?

Use the comments feature to contribute your thoughts to this on-going discussion.