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 # HELibTech briefings
 
-#### [New approaches to resource sharing: transforming library collections and the user experience](https://www.kenchadconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/New_approaches_to_resource_sharing-_Dec2022-1.pdf)
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 Ken Chad. Higher Education Library Technology \[HELibTech] Briefing Paper No. 8, December 2022.
 
 InterLibrary loan (ILL) is an essential library service. Even the largest, most well-funded library cannot meet, from its own collections, all the resource needs of all its users. However, InterLibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery (DD) workflows and software solutions can be complex with staff intensive workflows. A new generation of library resource sharing solutions is helping libraries transform legacy ILL practices and systems and challenge past assumptions. In the past, key factors limiting efficient ILL/DD were the complex nature and poor interoperability of ILL systems and the resultant staff intensive workflows and costs. As we move into the second quarter of the 21st century, technology has transformed ILL/resource sharing.
 
 While Open Access is widely acknowledged as having challenged conventional subscription publication models, a full solution to enabling the free flow of research is still to be found. OA combined with persistent work by librarians collaborating regionally, nationally and internationally to break down barriers to sharing resources, creates potential for a dramatically new approach. New approaches to resource sharing will encourage a reassessment of library collections and drive forward a more open research agenda.
 
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 #### [Open library systems – a new perspective](https://www.kenchadconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Open-library-systems-KenChad-May2022.pdf)
 
 Ken Chad. Higher Education Library Technology \[HELibTech] Briefing Paper No. 7, May 2022.
 
 In the last decade or so open source software became a defining factor in how librarians perceived ‘open’ library systems. Open source library systems such as Koha gained market share were often seen in terms of a ‘battle’ with the more common proprietary solutions. With the rise of cloud computing, software ‘platforms’ have come to dominate. Because the solution is hosted in the cloud, rather than implemented on local servers, the underlying technology becomes of less concern. These platforms, including Library Services Platforms (LSPs) typically embrace open source components and combine them with proprietary solutions. The value of a ‘platform’, as opposed to a software ‘product’ comes not only from its own features, but from its ability to connect to external solutions, data, and processes. To do this it needs to be ‘open’ in terms of data and the ability to integrate, via (typically open) application programming Interfaces (APIs), with other products which may be developed by customers or provided by other independent software vendors (ISVs).This, open interoperability, perspective is now a more fruitful way to consider open library systems.
 
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 #### [Rethinking the Library Services Platform](https://www.kenchadconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rethinking_the_LSP_Jan2016a.pdf)
 
 Ken Chad HELIbTech briefing paper No. 2.
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 A more open library technology ecosystem, possibly making better use of open source components, would eliminate the restrictions of a closed and monolithic suite of services from a single vendor. Solutions are moving to the Cloud but aren’t yet really platforms. It is possible that such a platform-based ecosystem model will be the “next generation” in library automation. The promise for libraries is a more flexible and cost effective solution and for users a much improved user experience.
 
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 #### [Library management system to library services platform. Resource management for libraries: a new perspective](https://www.kenchadconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Resource_management_briefing_HELibTech_KenChad_Aug2015.pdf)
 
  Ken Chad HELibTech Briefing Paper August 2015