SHARES ILL Practitioners Council
Note: The work of the SHARES ILL Practitioners Council has been completed and the group has been disbanded.
The purpose of the ILL Practitioners Council was to
strengthen the sense of community, shared purpose, effectiveness, and
opportunity within SHARES. It focused on needs and contributions of
front-line ILL staff at SHARES institutions. The Practitioners Council
was charged to:
- Strengthen the sense of community and shared purpose
within SHARES by increasing practitioners' awareness of the program's
policies and guidelines, promoting buddy systems and regional meetings,
highlighting achievements of effective SHARES members, and soliciting
feedback on policy, initiative, and training issues.
- Monitor performance indicators of SHARES participants
(such as turnaround time and reasons for negative responses) and make
recommendations to the SHARES Executive Group for follow-up action.
- Serve as an advocacy committee for SHARES ILL
practitioners, fielding complaints about un-SHARES-like behavior,
suggestions for alteration of SHARES policies or guidelines, or any
complaints about RLG, and making recommendations for action to the
SHARES Executive Group.
- Take a leading role in organizing the twice-yearly
SHARES ILL Practitioners meetings at American Library Association
conferences.
- Give more SHARES ILL practitioners (including
non-librarians with administrative ILL duties) an opportunity to
participate in the access partnership on a broader, more visible level.
Seven to twelve SHARES participants from general and
special members (at least one from outside the US) were elected by their
peers and served for two years.
RLG staff liaison:
Dennis Massie
Program Officer
dennis_massie@oclc.org
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