Take a closer look at the future of resource sharing with Amigos Library Services on December 8, 2021, as we explore resource sharing trends on the horizon and ways of providing patrons with better access to library collections and services outside of our building and within our reach. No one library can fulfil all user information needs, so going it alone is not an option. Libraries have long relied on sharing resources and active partnerships and continue to do so today.
Assistant University Librarian for Scholarly Collection Services at Princeton University and the 2017 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award recipient, Peter Bae, will kick off the day with a keynote address on resource sharing beyond the pandemic. Then through engaging presentations and talks during the day, you will have the opportunity to learn about how other libraries are changing the future of resource sharing. Do not forget, as a benefit of Amigos membership, attendance is FREE at all online conferences!
For more information about this conference, contact Jodie Borgerding, borgerding@amigos.org or (972) 340-2897.
Speaker Bio: Perry Collins is the copyright and open educational resources librarian at the University of Florida (UF), where she works with students and educators on campus and beyond to navigate copyright dilemmas and promote affordable access to learning materials. Before coming to UF, Perry was a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Speaker Bio: Andrea Buntz Neiman is the project manager for Software Development at Equinox Open Library Initiative. She coordinates contract software development for Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS, Fulfillment Interlibrary Loan, and other open-source library products. She started her career at the Library of Congress and then spent eleven years in public libraries, working everywhere from circulation to cataloging to systems, before joining Equinox in 2016.
In this session, three UConn Library staff will share our methods for negotiating better license terms from vendors, give examples of license terms that we negotiated to permit whole ebook ILL, walk through the technicalities of the workflow, and visualize our ebook ILL data over time. Attendees will come away from this presentation with a clear sense of how to negotiate with vendors and launch DRM-free interlibrary lending of whole ebooks at their own libraries. 
Speaker Bio: Erika McNeil has a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, a Master of Arts in English Literature from Boston College, and a Master of Library Sciences from Southern Connecticut State University, with a concentration in academic libraries. She has worked at MIT and the Ohio State University Libraries and is now head of interlibrary services at the University of Connecticut.
Speaker Bio: Mike Richins is Director of Product Management for RapidILL, and has 20 years of experience in resource sharing. Beginning his career in the Interlibrary Loan department at Colorado State University Libraries, he joined the RapidILL team in 2010 and moved to Ex Libris in 2019. Contributing to both RapidILL and Rapido, he works with libraries around the world to improve and enhance their resource sharing activities.
This launch started just as the world saw the need for increased access to electronic resources as physical libraries and print materials were inaccessible for most. SILLVR demonstrates how vendors and libraries can work together to increase access to underfunded libraries and meet the needs of patrons. The SILLVR pilot continues in 2021 continuing to build on partnerships and build new ones.
In this role she provides leadership to the department which acquires, licenses, and purchases learning materials, manages the physical library stacks, oversees interlibrary loan, and performs collections assessment.
Speaker Bio: As the Access Services Manager at Rice University's Fondren Library, Sue manages the day-to-day operations of circulation, stacks maintenance, interlibrary loan, course reserves and front desk security within the access services department. Sue provides leadership, ongoing support and training of staff in promoting a culture of teamwork with an emphasis on ensuring quality service for patrons. She participates in the development, recommendation and administration of division policies, procedures and processes. Additionally, Sue collaborates with other library departments, the Rice community, external patrons, supervises and mentors, a team of three access services supervisors, and a full team of 21 members. Prior to joining Rice, she served in several research roles at Factiva, a division of Dow Jones & Co., and has held librarian positions in engineering, medical, public and school libraries. Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Rutgers University, a Master of Library Science degree from Rutgers University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston-Downtown. 