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Academic resource sharing has been impacted over the last 18 months due to an unprecedented pandemic causing temporary physical library closures and reduction or elimination of sharing resources. Additionally, the impact of understanding the virus lifespan on physical materials also shaped how libraries are providing resources and fulfilling ILL requests in a timely manner. This session will provide updates from various library groups on how COVID impacted the library’s or group’s mission of sharing materials, the creation of new or improved resource sharing initiatives, and the cultivation of new partnerships in this new environment.

Sponsored by the Empire State Library Network, this session is an overview of how resource sharing has impacted library organizations and academic libraries in response to the pandemic. The audience is academic directors and librarians and staff who support resource sharing.

Each speaker will present for about 15 minutes with five minutes for questions after each session. Attendees are encouraged to
submit questions ahead of time.

• Tim Jackson, Resource Sharing and Fulfillment Coordinator for SUNY Library Services
• Chris (CJ) Keough, Manager of the Libraries Annex at the University at Buffalo, and member of the Empire Library Delivery (ELD) Advisory Committee
• Mark Sullivan, Executive Director of the IDS Project
• Kristen Wilson, Project Manager/Business Analyst, IndexData and Pam Jones, Executive Director, ConnectNY
• John Raymond, Access Services & Technology Librarian, Siena College
• Andrew White, Director of Library Information Services, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Michele Matthews, Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• ESLN Institutional Repository Pilot Project Participants

Registration is required. This webinar will not be recorded.

This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network.

If you have any questions, contact Kathleen Gundrum or Laura Schiefer.

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For more information on this session or the other sessions in the ESLN Resource Sharing Webinar Series, visit our website.