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It was four years ago on 21 April 2020 that, during the early days of the COVID pandemic, the IFLA/DDRS committee launched an initiative to share resources with libraries throughout the world.
Cultivating connections, understanding, and collegial relationships. Discover practical insights and real-life examples on building productive networks globally. Prioritize meaningful relationships for personal growth and enhanced library services impact.
The IFLA DDRS Webinar Series invites you to explore the human side of interlibrary loan in an upcoming English-language webinar. Join Peter Bae and Ibrahim Farah as they emphasize the importance of building connections and fostering understanding in library resource sharing. Through practical insights and real-life examples, they demonstrate how prioritizing meaningful relationships can enhance professional growth and amplify the impact of library services. Discover how communication, empathy, and goodwill can revolutionize your professional relationships and elevate resource sharing in libraries.
📚 Exciting News for Librarians, Publishers, and Information Specialists! 🌐 Unveiling the 18th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply Conference "Global to Local: Diversity and Inclusiveness in Resource Sharing" website [ilds.ada.edu.az]. Join us in shaping the future of resource sharing! #InterlendingConference #ResourceSharing #DocumentSupply #KnowledgeExchange 🚀 Stay Updated: 📅 Explore the latest updates, session details, and key announcements on our regularly updated website. From the conference agenda to speaker profiles and interactive sessions, find everything you need to plan your personalized experience.
The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Standing Committee (DDRS) shares an open-access publication, "Document Delivery and Resource Sharing: Global Perspectives." This comprehensive guide covers various aspects of operational resource sharing, including background, systems overview, copyright, technology, content management, and operations.
Promoting digital inclusion is an essential goal for libraries around the world, particularly so in the fields of resource sharing and document delivery. When libraries were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Document Delivery and Resource Sharing section launched the RSCVD (Resource Sharing during COVID) service, an innovative crowdsourced initiative which enabled libraries to continue to meet the information needs of their communities while working remotely. Read more about progress on this ongoing IFLA DDRS service.
The RSCVD is moving forward with the aim of continuing its mission of providing high quality resource sharing around the world to help librarians ensure universal and equitable access to information.
The 18th IFLA ILDS (Interlending and Document Supply) Conference will be held at ADA University in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan
Resource Sharing Collaborative and Voluntary Document (RSCVD) is a Community of volunteer libraries providing high-quality, open and collaborative resource-sharing service to help librarians to ensure universal and equitable access to information.
Resource Sharing Collaborative and Voluntary Document (RSCVD) started in 2020 as an initiative of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section. RSCVD now starts a new stage under the auspice of IFLA DDRS Committee.
Started in 2020 as Resource Sharing during COVID-19 and beyond (RSCVD), the initiative is now known as Resource Sharing Collaborative and Voluntary Document Delivery (RSCVD).
In the spirit of Erasmus, who looked to the past as an inspiration for the future, the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section (DDRS) hosted a lively and informative Open Session about Controlled Digital Lending (or CDL).
Save the date for the final conference of the HERMES project on resource sharing, bringing together librarians, researchers, students and advocates for a knowledge commons in order to share tools, learn lessons, and identify future needs in the field of resource sharing. The conference takes place on 18 April 2023 at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, with training on 19 April.
Due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions, the IFLA-Document Delivery & Resource Sharing and Qatar National Library organizing committees decided to postpone the 17th Interlending and Document Supply Conference.
The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (DDRS) Standing Committee has extended the submission deadline to 15 October 2021.
The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (DDRS) Standing Committee is pleased to announce the 17th Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference, hosted by Qatar National Library in Doha, Qatar from 8 to 10 March 2022.
To enable more robust in-person attendance, the date of the 17th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference at the Qatar National Library (QNL) in Doha has been shifted to 8-10 March 2022.
Qatar National Library has been selected to host the 17th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference from 4 to 7 October 2021.
Libraries around the world volunteer to help other libraries during the COVID crisis.
IFLA' Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section has just launched a special tool to help ILL professionals in not-for-profit libraries anywhere in the world.