SHARES Partnership Agreement
All RLG Programs partners are invited to join the SHARES
partnership.
- For a list of participating organizations, see Partner
contacts.
- For SHARES interlending, document supply, and on-site procedures, see Procedures.
Each participating institution has a designated SHARES
liaison who
serves as the institution's official contact regarding local adherence
to SHARES policies, votes to elect liaisons to an executive group, and
provides advice to the group regarding overall policy.
Partners make a commitment to agreed-on
policies, monitor
their own performance, and manage local workflow to their own and each
other's benefit. There is no separate program fee for participation;
the partner representative of the institution need only sign and return
the agreement below.
Signing the SHARES agreement means:
- You and your staff are committed to providing SHARES
services to partners' primary clientele.
- You are identifying a person to be your institution's
principal contact with the SHARES program officer at RLG Programs.
- Your SHARES contact will provide and keep current
your institution's information for the RLG Programs Web-based ILL
directory and
liaison on the SHARES Partner Contacts page.
- Your institution may be listed as a participant in
RLG Programs publicity about SHARES.
- You understand and agree to the SHARES net-lending
calculation:
$10 for all copies, $10 for returnables within a continent, and $30 for
returnables between continents.
- Your staff will follow SHARES ILL performance
standards and procedures, including 3-day turnaround and 35-day loan
periods, and SHARES on-site access guidelines.
- Your staff with control over collections and library
operations agree to work with your ILL staff genuinely to consider each
SHARES loan or copy request case by case, for all types of material.
- You can use any ILL system that converses with OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing (WCRS). But your SHARES requests must pass through WCRS, and you must use IFM (ILL Fee Management) as the payment method.
- Your library will contribute bibliographic records to WorldCat and keep holdings information current.
Procedure
- The SHARES Agreement Form is available for download as a pdf document (27K/1 pp.).
- Please print this form and have it signed by the RLG
Programs partner
representative for your institution.
- Return the completed form with any
other materials you have received as part of becoming an RLG Programs
partner, or
as requested by RLG Programs.
- Mail the completed form to Ms. Jeanette McNicol, RLG Programs, 2029 Stierlin Court, Suite 100, Mountain View,
CA 94043-4684 USA.
Contacts
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