Resource Sharing for Groups is a consortial borrowing solution that integrates with your library services platform to mobilize your group's collection for fast delivery to library users.
Administrative settings for Resource Sharing for Groups are maintained in OCLC Service Configuration. In Service Configuration, you can set your interlibrary loan options, borrower and lender constant data, custom holdings groups, automations, and purchase options.
The OCLC Policies Directory is the repository of lending and copying policies of libraries participating in WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, Tipasa, and Resource Sharing for Groups.
Article Exchange provides a single secure location where lending libraries can place requested articles for interlibrary loan. It allows users to upload files for pickup anywhere in the world. Only authorized users will be able to download the file.
Resource Sharing for Groups and third-party Circulation integration provides you with a method to streamline the interlibrary loan-circulation process and workflow. Librarians and staff who process ILL loans will no longer have to update their circulation environment manually to create temporary items and patron holds, charge patron ILL fees, checkout items that your library is lending, or checkin items at the end of the loan period.
The Interlibrary Loan Fee Management (IFM) feature lets libraries reconcile resource-sharing charges and payments through their monthly OCLC invoice. IFM helps libraries save money on fee-based transactions and simplify the transaction process.
Find information about Smart fulfillment features, which increase the speed of delivery of materials based on policy data, lending history, licensing agreements, format preferences, and more.
With Resource Sharing for Groups, you can print individual requests, all requests in a queue, add requests to the print queue to print out later, and queue book straps and shipping and return labels to be printed.
Find Resource Sharing for Groups release notes and known issues. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
Find more information about the Community Center. Current Resource Sharing product users may join the OCLC Community Center to connect with peers and OCLC staff on product workflows, attend webinars, and provide feedback on the product.