Welcome to the Resource Sharing Community Portal!

First, we would like to thank you for becoming part of this new community dedicated to improving the process of borrowing and lending library items and streamlining the delivery electonic documents. Although the Resource Sharing community is just beginning, you are also joining the larger WebJunction Central community which started in 2003 and includes over 50,000 members worldwide. Be sure to look for your friends or colleagues in other parts of the library community and start building your professional network through My WebJunction.

The primary goal of the Resource Sharing community is to bring together the expertise, experiences and knowledge generated by you, your staff and your fellow ILL practitioners throughout the interlibrary loan landscape and to offer advice and suggestions in order for you to provide better service to your end-users and make your daily activities more efficient.

Within this community, you will be able to ...

• Communicate directly with users with similar interests
• Gather together in groups to discuss specific topics or activities
• Make use of other libraries' best practice guides or upload yours for comments
• Help define how the community should grow or provide suggestions on how to better organize it

A Quick Look at the Site (i.e., mini-site map)

• Home -- your landing page to discover what is new within the Resource Sharing community. It will also be a place to access quick links to various parts of the site
• My WebJunction -- look for friends, see what they are working on, follow discussions you are participating in and access your own bookmarks for your favorite parts of the portal
• Introduction -- you are here now . This is where you can learn about the Resource Sharing Community Portal
• Getting Started -- find getting started guides, resources, and discussions for sites new to resource sharing and and using software and services like ILLiad and WorldCat Resource Sharing
• Communitites -- gather together in specific subsets of the Resource Sharing Community (e.g. library type)
• Training -- discover where to learn more about taking courses to further your knowledge about ILL software and specific technical topics
• Best Practices -- look to see how others have defined their specific work instructions or where you can share the documents, powerpoints or videos you have created at your institution to help others to improve their procedures
• Technology -- learn about and discuss the technologies behind the software and services that are used by ILL librarians
• Support -- find content generated by OCLC's customer support staff based upon service requests including troubleshooting tips, frequently asked questions, known issues and system alerts
• News -- discuss newsworthy topics and talk about the future of resource sharing

A New Road to Information for the Resource Sharing Community

Presentation at the OCLC ILLiad Conference. Virginia Beach, VA. March 20th, 2009. Provides an introduction to the Resource Sharing Community Portal, the benefits of using the WebJunction software and some instructions on how to get started.

Overview of the WorldCat Resource Sharing Network

An established network of more than 10,000 libraries around the world with the OCLC services at the core of their sharing activities. OCLC delivery services help to manage the flow of your materials more effectively when you create, track and share interlibrary loan requests with participating libraries and content providers. OCLC offers both stand-alone systems and integration with what you currently use, all with the goal of supporting local, consortia-level and global sharing.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll