Sharing Breakthroughs
2017 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference
March 14–16, 2017 • Virginia Beach, Virginia
When people find the right information, they can achieve breakthroughs in their personal, academic and professional lives.
ILL community members understand better than anyone that the perfect piece of the knowledge puzzle can come from just about anywhere. But how can you build the best connections—both professional and technological—to the answers your users need?
Join ILL colleagues and OCLC staff to share the latest in resource sharing technology and best-in-class approaches to patron service and interlibrary loan workflows. As a strong community of ILL librarians, we can apply the principles of resource sharing to our own knowledge and professional development. As part of this group, you’ll find ways to improve operational efficiencies, save time, and better connect end users to the information they need to make their own breakthroughs possible. It’s a unique opportunity to interact with a very specific and knowledgeable community of professionals.
Welcome
“I invite you to join us at the 2017 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference – Sharing Breakthroughs. We are excited for the opportunity to expand the ILLiad Conference and bring together libraries across the ILLiad, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldCat Navigator and VDX communities. We’ll share our learnings and make breakthroughs together, in the areas of software, services, processes and professional development. I look forward to seeing you there.”
KATIE BIRCH
Executive Director, Resource Sharing at OCLC
Who should attend?
Members and leaders of the following departments and focus areas will benefit from conference attendance:
- Access Services
- Interlibrary Loan
- Resource Sharing
- Document Delivery Services
- Borrowing/Lending
- Circulation Services
- Systems Administrator/Library IT
Librarians using the following solutions should also attend:
- ILLiad
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
- WorldCat Navigator
- OCLC VDX
Program Committee
Respected leaders from the resource sharing community are helping to shape the conference program. We sincerely appreciate their industry expertise and partnership.
Tina Baich
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
CJ de Jong
University of Alberta
Mike Hawthorne
Wayne State University
Collette Mak
University of Notre Dame
Cassie Maringer
Washington County Cooperative Library Services
Lori Smith
Colorado State Library
Stephanie Spires
Atlas Systems
Christa Starck
OCLC
Thank you to our conference sponsors.
