Project Updates

Owned by Leila Smith
Last updated: Jun 10, 2022

6/9/2022

  • On behalf of the IPLC Library Directors, the ReShare Implementation Team is pleased to announce that IPLC has officially contracted with Index Data to implement ReShare beginning July 2022. Reshare will replace OCLC’s Relais system.
  • We appreciate the immense amount of effort that has gone into this process to date, which has involved numerous and diverse stakeholder groups within and across IPLC. 
  • At this time, the IPLC community should feel free to share this news and communicate as appropriate with students, faculty, staff and other stakeholders on the migration and transition. 
  • The ReShare Implementation Team will be working on a formal press release for the IPLC to share more broadly with the library community.
  • The Team will also begin discussions with the ReShare Project Community, to initiate the process of the IPLC becoming a formal Project ReShare member.  

4/1/2022

  • Ginny Boyer, IPLC's Director of Discovery and Resource Sharing Initiatives, is continuing to work with Index Data to move a finalized MOU and service contract through Princeton's various mechanisms. Significant progress has been made, and we hope to have more news on this front soon.
  • Both the Index Data and POD development teams have been making excellent progress enhancing their respective systems. Index Data is focusing on improvements to the Inventory module of ReShare, while POD's development team has been working on getting new developers up to speed with the tool and improving the data provider experience.
  • Bob Persing (Penn) and James Robinson (IPLC) have been meeting with libraries individually this week to assist them with establishing data streams to POD, mapping MARC records, and documenting rules that will dictate lendability in BorrowDirect. 8 of these meetings took place this week, and we plan to have met with each of our libraries at least once by the end of next week.
  • Our Resource Sharing Assessment Tool (RSAT) testers are continuing to work with Penn to improve the tool. That testing team is currently looking at data consistency across the tool (e.g. dashboards, SQL reports, exports into 3rd-party tools like Tableau) and reviewing current data models for derived values. In the coming weeks, RSAT will be pulling in data from a live ReShare instance (PALCI's E-ZBorrow program), and testers will be able to closely examine how ReShare data behaves in RSAT.
  • The ReShare Documentation Review Team has been assembled! Please take a moment to thank Jessica Bower Relevo (Yale), Lapis Cohen (Penn), Hilary Thorsen (Stanford), and Emily Wiedrick (Dartmouth) for volunteering for this project! This small group is tasked with reviewing the existing documentation that exists for ReShare, suggesting edits or additions to what is currently in place, and creating any IPLC specific documentation that is needed to assist libraries with the implementation. The team has already started going over existing documentation and will begin meeting regularly as a group next week.
  • Index Data is wrapping up work on a system architecture and data usage packet that will be provided to heads of IT within IPLC to kickstart our SSO patron authentication conversations. Please be on the lookout for more information about this next week.