About the RRS Manifesto The RRS manifesto aspires

About the RRS Manifesto The RRS manifesto aspires to inspire systematic change that inspires libraries to more effectively serve all potential users. Are you ready to Rethink Resource Sharing? The Rethinking Resources Checklist Selected Endorsements • • • ALA/RUSA/STARS Exec. Comm. IFLA Doc. Delivery + RS Comm. Ontario Library Association National & State Libs. Australasia DELNET (India) Forum for Interlending, Danish Research Library Association Manifesto Principles • Restrictions shall be only be imposed as necessary by individual institutions. • Library users shall be given appropriate options for delivery format, method of delivery + fulfillment type. • Global access to sharable resources shall be encouraged • Sharable resources shall include those held in cultural institutions of all sorts. • Reference services are a vital component • Libraries should offer service at a fair price • Library registration should be as easy as signing up with commercial web services. The checklist contains a detailed list of over 60 ways in which libraries and cultural institutions can act consistently in the broad goals outlined in the Rethinking Resource Sharing Manifesto. Some are commonplace, while others are designed to challenge traditional assumptions about collections, particularly collections designated as non-circulating. Are you, your institutions, and your patrons ready to consider some of the following? Library loans A/V/ materials. Examples: CDs, DVDs, or VHS. Library loans bound journals. Lending library has extended loan period (beyond traditional 30 days). Loaned returnables are not recalled; needed items are requested from other providers. Lending library allows unlimited renewals for items not needed locally. Library provides same level of service to all users. The STAR Award Program The STAR program allows libraries to self-assess their progress towards implementing ideas from the STAR checklist. The STAR Award program recognizes that the full collection of items on the STAR checklist are an ideal, but that significant progress towards them should be attainable. For each item on the list, libraries are asked to rank themselves as: • We do this now (2 points) • We plan to do this within the next 12 months (1 point) • We do not do this (0 points) Depending on, libraries are granted between 1 and 4 stars. To date, more than 50 libraries have completed this assessment. Lending library staff has option to waive fees to encourage supply of materials. Borrowing library will contribute to costs of scanning unique items that cannot be loaned physically. Resource sharing staff provide input on license language for electronic content acquired by the library. Library does not charge its cardholders for interlibrary loan service. Library has credit card for staff to use to obtain materials from commercial providers needed by patrons. For the complete list, please visit: http: //rethinkingresourcesharing. org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/RRS-Star-submission-form-with-questions-for. WEBSITE. pdf Rethinking Resource Sharing http: //rethinkingresourcesharing. org Rob Withers Head of Access Services Miami University Libraries witherre@miamioh. edu