WorldShare Interlibrary Loan digest, 2024
WorldShare Interlibrary Loan digest, 2024
Thanks to your invaluable feedback, we introduced many new features and enhancements in 2024 to streamline your ILL workflows and improve your library users' experience. Virtual events also kept the ILL community connected, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Full digest of new WorldShare ILL features and enhancements
All features and enhancements are included with your WorldShare ILL subscription at no additional charge.
Improving your workflows and processes
| Enhancement | Release date |
| Take advantage of improved bibliographic matching to fill requests more quickly and save staff time | February 2024 |
| Utilize License Manager enhancements to specify and view more accurate ILL license terms | February 2024 |
| April 2024 | |
| June 2024 | |
| Utilize the improved dashboard to more easily track turnaround times | June 2024 |
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SMART FULFILLMENT Fill copy requests faster for your patrons with new intelligent-timing automation |
October 2024 |
| Use the Resource Sharing Request API to cancel or renew requests | October 2024 |
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Staff interface being modernized for improved accessibility, usability, and navigation |
Ongoing |
More highlights from 2024
| Highlight | Resources |
Express digital delivery programGet items for your users faster by sharing digital resources among this select group of libraries committed to average turnaround times of 18 hours or less. |
MEMBER STORY Jessup University - Create faster, more efficient workflows for resource sharing DETAILS Learn more about qualifying for the Express program at at oc.lc/express. |
OCLC's profiled groupsUtilize the groups FILM, LONG, and LVIS to save time and control ILL costs.
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NEWS POST Updated and improved! FILM profiled group* EVENT RECORDINGS Update on the FILM profiled group (January 2024, 32:55 time stamp)* Get the most out of intelligent timing (October 2024, 27:55 time stamp)* DETAILS |
Key events and educational opportunitiesUpdate your knowledge and skills with community events and training sessions. |
EVENT RECORDINGS RSC24 web series (March - May 2024, six 1-hour recordings)* ALA Annual 2024: OCLC resource sharing community breakfast (June 2024)
Northwest ILL & Resource Sharing Conference (September 2024)
Product Insights: Resource Sharing*
RESOURCES Southeastern Resource Sharing Conference (October 2024)
ONLINE TRAINING, VIDEOS, AND TUTORIALS |
*Requires sign-in to the OCLC Community Center.
Resource Sharing for Groups
All new features and enhancements listed below are included with OCLC's Resource Sharing for Groups, a modern consortial borrowing solution that expedites delivery for library users.
| Enhancement | Release date |
| Limit the number of active requests allowed per library user | May 2024 |
| Send email notifications to your library's patrons about their ILL transactions | June 2024 |
| Manage configurations for all libraries in your group | June 2024 |
| June 2024 | |
| Provide patrons with a My Account experience | August 2024 |
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Use Resource Sharing for Groups without a patron data load for fulfillment integration For libraries with Ex Libris Alma/Primo |
See Product Insights: Resource Sharing, June 2024, 28:25 time stamp |
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Use circulation lending integration to automatically place holds for requested items For libraries with Sirsi Dynix Horizon or Symphony |
August 2024 |
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For circulation integration, configure borrower identifiers for placing holds and checking out items For libraries with Horizon or Symphony |
October 2024 |
For more information on Resource Sharing for Groups, see also:
- Resource Sharing for Groups patron experience features (Product Insights: Resource Sharing, June 2024, 18:45 time stamp)*
- University of Maryland: Collaborate to launch a new consortial borrowing solution (member story)
- ALA Annual 2024: OCLC resource sharing community breakfast (June 2024)
Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and successful implementation of OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups (26:05 time stamp)
Brynne Norton, Head, Resource Sharing & Reserves, University of Maryland Libraries, shares how the Phase I completion of this initiative has expanded the capacity and efficiency of the BTAA’s consortial borrowing efforts.
Important links
Smart fulfillment
Set dynamic, data-driven processes in motion to achieve faster turnaround times and improve your library users' experience. Read how several OCLC ILL community members benefit from Smart fulfillment in action.
Learn more at Smart fullfillment and oc.lc/sf-get-started.
- Real-time availability for ILL
- Knowledge base coverage check - NEW!
- Automated Request Manager
- Smart lender strings - now with intelligent timing!
- Express program
- Other OCLC services that interact with smart fulfillment (WorldCat knowledge base, Local holdings records)
WorldShare ILL training
OCLC offers free training sessions, included with your WorldShare ILL subscription. Whether you are new to using WorldShare ILL or just need a refresher, we encourage you to participate in Live classes:
- Introduction to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan: Borrowing
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan: Lending
Class recordings, self-paced courses, and shorter videos on WorldShare ILL are also available for on-demand learning, including this tutorial for the Automated Request Manager. For more information, and to access all WorldShare ILL training resources, see WorldShare ILL training.
OCLC Resource Sharing Conference web series
OCLC invites you to view the recordings and slides from the 2024 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference (RSC24) web series are available in the community center. The free, virtual sessions from RSC24 included:
- March 13: Lightning sessions | Recording and Slides
- It’s dangerous to go alone: The collaborative process of providing resources for teaching
- Streamlining access: The merge of information services and interlibrary loan for an almost seamless library experience
- From silo to collaboration: Embedding resource sharing in collection management
- March 27: Forming a more perfect union: The groundbreaking harmonization of resource sharing policies across and within Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries | Recording and Slides
- April 10: Panel presentation: The power of collaboration: Cross-departmental cooperation and resilience | Recording and Slides
- April 24: Lightning sessions | Recording and Slides
- Win-win purchasing: Using ILL to automate your collection development for print items
- Book digitization: How the UConn Library accommodates patrons with print disabilities
- A tiered system approach to ILL borrowing
- May 1: Lightning sessions | Recording and Slides
- Building bridges beyond borders: Key findings from the international interlibrary loan survey
- Emerging Nations Article Exchange Program
- May 8: Advancing resource sharing: OCLC and Atlas Systems innovations in APIs and AI | Recording and Slides
The free, virtual 2025 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference (RSC25) web serires will be held from March through May 2025. The Program Committee members and the OCLC Resource Sharing team invite you to submit your proposals through February 1, 2025. For details on RSC25, visit oc.lc/rsc25.
RSC recordings and registration require sign-in to the OCLC Community Center.
OCLC Community Center
The OCLC Community Center is your space to connect with community peers, collaborate, ask questions, gain insight, and share ideas to improve products.
The WorldShare Interlibrary Loan product community and Resource Sharing knowledge community provide Discussions, News, Events, and Recordings for WorldShare ILL community members. You can also submit Ideas, access the latest Roadmap, and Share your recognitions.
WorldShare ILL product community pages
Resource Sharing knowledge community pages
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.
OCLC support sites
Support information for this product and related products can be found at: