The IHLS Communications Department has created a customizable Canva template so SHARE members can communicate with stakeholders easily and effectively. Using data from the SHARE Data Dashboard and a few simple calculations, you can make a professional and informative flyer to distribute to patrons, board members, students, and other stakeholders. This template includes multiple examples and instructions on how to customize it.
Exciting News for SHARE Members! Illinois Heartland Library System has just launched three new dashboards to empower SHARE member libraries with valuable insights.
Short on time and shelf space? McNaughton Book Leasing for SHARE may be your solution to keeping up new titles and the processing work that comes with it!
With this monthly book lease subscription, McNaughton will send five or ten pre-cataloged and pre-processed bestsellers to your library each month, reducing your holds, saving you staff time, and maximizing your shelf space.
This is the first-of-its-kind book leasing program for consortia. The program and its pricing are exclusive to SHARE.
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The SHARE Circulation & Resource Sharing Committee has proposed revisions to the Damaged Item Procedure, the Payment and Billing Policy, and the Patron Registration Policy. Please review the policies below and respond with any questions, suggestions, or feedback in the comments section below. All additions are marked in purple and excisions are marked in red. Please comment by June 5, 2025, for consideration by the Circulation & Resource Sharing Committee.
Great news! The proposed recommendations passed with a total of 169 member libraries participating in this year’s vote.
Recently, SHARE Bibliographic Services staff became aware that vendors used by libraries to purchase materials reuse invoice numbers after a 7–10-year period. Due to the age of SHARE as well as multiple acquisition libraries utilizing the same vendor(s), it is highly likely that additional instances of orders with duplicate invoice numbers will occur.
The following policy is being proposed to prevent these occurrences. Please comment below by May 14, 2025, for your comment to be considered by the SHARE Bibliographic and Cataloging Standards Committee.
SHARE needs members to vote to update our SHARE policies and procedures, to better serve our members and/or follow guidelines set by organizations such as the Illinois State Library, American Library Association, or the Library of Congress.
Take a look at what's happening in our latest SHARE Member Notes!
