# /programs/shares/agreement.htm

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# 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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The SHARES Agreement Form itself | Jeanette McNicol
The SHARES Participant Agreement | Dennis Massie SHARES Program Officer