Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

Welcome

Tim Hackman, VIVA Resource Sharing Committee Chair (Old Dominion University)

Keynote presentation: Re-Envisioning Resource Sharing: Building Community Through Vision, Policy, and Collaboration

Keynote Presenter: Emily Campbell, Director of Document Delivery, University of Michigan Library

As the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) sets out to create the Big Collection encompassing the physical collections across the consortia, we spent time re-envisioning our consortial resource sharing and harmonized our local policies. Our goal is and was to create a focused, collaborative, and mission driven eco-system that facilitates the free flow of information and material. This requires a high level vision, but must be built on a practical and detailed foundation that values access and generosity. 

Building on my experience as Director of Document Delivery and leading consortial wide projects for the Big Collection Steering Committee I will outline the practical steps we took to make policy harmonization a reality, how we built consensus across a large group of research libraries with competing campus priorities, and how implementation has worked on the ground. The Policy Harmonization work centered our commitment to superior customer experience and equitable access to resources and is built to be flexible, but clear. 

Emily Campbell is the Director of Document Delivery at the University of Michigan where she has worked in various roles since 2007 and has been director since 2015. She is the 2023 winner of the Virginia Boucher Award for her contributions to consortial resource sharing with her work aligning policy across the BTAA ensuring patrons across the consortia have sustained access to the material they need. Emily has been a leader in the BTAA’s development partnership with OCLC to replace the UBorrow software with RS4G, . She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband, her 3 children, a Brittany Spaniel, and an orange cat who loves to ride around on her shoulders. 

Copyright, Accessibility, and Resource Sharing

Speaker: Kiowa Hammons (Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communication, UVA)

Gift card drawing

VIVA Update

Speaker: Genya O'Gara

Creating an ISO 18626 Resource Sharing Network with CrossLink

Speaker: Mark Sullivan (IDS Project Executive Director, SUNY Geneseo)

Distance learning: Outreach & Support (Panel Presentation)

Speakers: Todd Burks (UVA), Katherine McKenzie (W&M), Kimberly Day (Liberty U)

How We Tell Our Stories: Using Social Media to Highlight Interlibrary Loan

Speakers: Paula Green (JMU), Emily Cook (W&L)

Gift card drawing

Closing Remarks

Speaker: Tari Smith (UVA), ILL Community Forum Chair