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Articles by Dennis Massie
Rising to the challenge: How the SHARES resource sharing community navigated a global disruption to international shipping
In late August 2025, interlibrary loan staff at libraries across the United States found themselves facing an unprecedented situation. Revocation of the De Minimis tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800, due to become effective on 29 August 2025, threw a blanket of uncertainty over global international shipping operations.
Roles for resource sharing practitioners in making library materials accessible
Image from pixabay.com Libraries play a crucial role in ensuring equitable access to information, yet many collected materials remain inaccessible to patrons with disabilities. How can resource-sharing practitioners leverage their expertise and systems to bridge this gap?
ILL across borders: Insights from SHARES on sharing physical materials internationally - Hanging Together
In March 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, members of the SHARES resource sharing consortium started gathering weekly for informal virtual town halls. This week, nearly five years later, we convened our 238th SHARES town hall, with 30 attendees and no preset agenda.
Specialized and Decentralized: Stewardship of the Art Research Collective Collection
Art libraries play a vital role in building, managing and sustaining collections to support art scholarship. Ensuring that these valuable collections remain available long into the future requires innovative thinking about collection development, resource sharing and stewardship.
Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection
Art libraries play a vital role in supporting art scholarship, but COVID-19 pandemic impacts have strained budgets to make sustainability challenges more acute than ever. To respond to these challenges and build institutional sustainability, art libraries can look to innovative partnerships and collaborations as one way forward.
Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration
Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration offers recommendations for building strong collaborations based on real-life examples of art library partnerships. These case studies document the practical experiences and lessons learned from collaborations involving art and academic libraries to identify successful collaboration characteristics and typical challenges when planning, implementing, and sustaining a partnership.
How resource sharing and collections data can inform collaboration
By its very nature, resource sharing between libraries is a form of collaboration. Most libraries have agreements and processes in place that enable them to fill collection gaps and provide for users’ needs through resource sharing partners. But is there value in pursuing a more deliberate, data-driven strategy when building your resource sharing groups? Might such a strategy reveal unexpected partnering opportunities?
Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data To Explore Collaboration
February 2023 by Brian Lavoie, Dennis Massie, Chela Scott Weber Art libraries provide vital support to art scholarship within their own institutions and in the broader scholarly community. As art libraries face challenges from an evolving environment, repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic, and static or diminishing resources, finding sustainable pathways forward becomes an increasing priority.
The International ILL Toolkit: a classic community-working-together story
Translated request templates, International ILL Toolkit The International ILL Toolkit is a freely available crowd-sourced tool, initiated by members of the OCLC SHARES resource sharing consortium and designed to make global resource sharing easier. The Toolkit’s emergence is an exciting development that fills a longstanding need for information about interlibrary loan suppliers willing to share internationally.
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