WorldShare Interlibrary Loan digest, December 2021
December 2021 digest
The year 2021 was filled with challenges and change, as we continued to adjust to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. With your ideas and feedback, we introduced new features and enhancements to help you better manage your ILL workflows. And, virtual events provided a way for ILL community members to stay connected and share information.
2021 highlights
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DELIVERY SPEED Save staff time and get resources to library users even faster with smart fulfillment functionality—available across all OCLC resource sharing services (WorldShare ILL, Tipasa, and ILLiad) |
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EVENT RECORDINGS
OCLC NEXT BLOG
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ACCURATE HOLDINGS Ensure you don't receive requests for serial years or volumes not held by your library with up-to-date local holdings records (LHRs) and WorldCat knowledge base collections |
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STANDARDS AND APIs Optimize resource sharing with ILL standards and APIs |
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ILLiad Utilize best practices and prepare for ILLiad 9.2 |
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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES Update your knowledge and skills with community events and training sessions |
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ONLINE TRAINING, VIDEOS, AND TUTORIALS |
*Hear from your Resource Sharing community colleagues!
Full digest of new features and enhancements
Automate and improve workflow efficiencies
Better manage e-resources
| Enhancement | Release date |
| More efficiently borrow print serials with automated consideration of Local Holdings Records | February 2021 |
| Customize Article Exchange settings to better reflect your library's policies and the copyright policies in your country | October 2021 |
Utilize local date formatting
| Enhancement | Release date |
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Note COVID-19-related workflows
| Enhancement | Release date |
| Aging period extended for problem statuses | February 2021 |
Additional event recordings
OCLC Resource Sharing Conference (RSC21) web series
OCLC invites you to revisit the sessions of the OCLC Resource Sharing Conference 2021 Web Series. This unique series offers an opportunity to learn about the latest resource sharing advancements. You’ll also learn how to improve your operational efficiency, save time, and elevate user services.
Recordings and slides are available at the links below for all six sessions:
- Page, scan, send, re-shelve: A mobile scanning station for ILL electronic document delivery service (March 30, 2021)
Xuan (Lily) Pang, Director of Access and Resource Sharing, University of Florida
Lara J. Beserock, Library Assistant III, University of Florida
Ashley Monahan, Interlibrary Loan Assistant, University of Florida
- ILL and the Pandemic: Learning from the unexpected (April 28, 2021)
Anna Vaglio, Bocconi University
Mattia Fortunati, Bocconi University
Agnese Riva, Bocconi University
Petra Otten, Wageningen University & Research Library
Dicky van Donselaar, Wageningen University & Research Library
Bethany Sewell, The College of New Jersey
Katie Cohen, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Meg Massey, The Pennsylvania State University
Phoebe Walker, New York University
Lapis David Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
Beth Posner, The Graduate Center, CUNY
J. Silvia Cho, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Ashli Wells, Vanderbilt University Massey Law Library
Robyn Weisman, Vanderbilt University Heard Libraries
Marta Ambroziak, New York Medical College
Brynne Norton, University of Maryland College Park
Lorraine Woods, University of Maryland College Park
- Controlled digital lending in two private academic libraries (June 10, 2021)
John Raymond, Siena College
Diana Hurlburt, Siena College
Peter Bae, Princeton University
- A look at ILL into the future: An updated on your ILL services (June 15, 2021)
Peter Collins, OCLC
Cathy King, OCLC
Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems (ILLiad)
Product Insights: Resource Sharing
For overviews of 2021 features and enhancements, review the recorded 1-hour webinars for Product Insights: Resource Sharing.
Important links
OCLC Community Center
The Interlibrary Loan community pages provide Discussions, News, and Events for the Resource Sharing community, as well as regular updates on and outcomes from product research activities coordinated by the OCLC Resource Sharing Product Team.
OCLC Research: SHARES
As institutions evolve toward a notion of “collective collections,” resource sharing partnerships that expand access to collections are of primary importance. SHARES, the resource sharing consortium of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, unites trusted partners that provide low-cost access to their diverse collections. SHARES also supports resource sharing innovation and best practices.
For the latest activities, see SHARES.
Virtual Workshop Series: Learn how to fine-tune your ILL setup
The series included the following topics:
- Part 1: Fine-tune your policies and deflections (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 2: Construct your custom holdings (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 3: Automate your request process (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 4: Curate and care for your constant data (recording, slides, and checklist available)
- Part 5: Make your usage statistics count (recording, slides, and checklist available)
OCLC Support sites
Support information for this product and related products can be found at: