Location: Capitol Hill Suites, 200 C Street, SE, Washington, DC

Purpose: Open to attendees from both the special collections and ILL departments of RLG member institutions. This event was developed to explore possible options for sharing treasured items from special collections and better serving scholars. In addition to "traditional" interlibrary lending operations and extending the successful SHARES model, these include the most current document transmission technology, digitizing on demand, and protocols to protect unique materials while ensuring their widest possible use. The interaction of speakers and members at this forum should help set the directions for RLG collaborative work on this area of resource sharing.

Post-forum reports: published in the February 2003 issue of RLG Focus.

9:00	Introductions —Anne Van Camp, Manager, RLG Member Initiatives
9:10	"Sharing the Wealth" Keynote —Robert Martin, Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services
9:40	PANEL I: Sharing Special Collections—Theory and Practice Moderator: Anne Van Camp "Expanding Access to Special Collections" [PDF] [PowerPoint presentation] —Thomas Hickerson, Associate University Librarian for Information, Technology and Special Collections, Cornell University "The Past, Present, and Future of Lending the Bodleian Library's Special Collections" —Mary Clapinson, Keeper of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
11:00	PANEL II: Experience in Sharing Unique and Rare Materials Moderator: Merrilee Proffitt, RLG Program Officer "Sharing Unique and Rare Materials at the Frick Art Reference Library" [PDF] [PowerPoint presentation] — Deborah Kempe, Chief, Collections Management and Access, Frick Art Reference Library "Testing the Waters: Report on a Pilot Project for Sharing Special Collections" —Susan Snyder, Head, Access Systems, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
1:30	PANEL III: Innovation in Interlibrary Lending Moderator: Dennis Massie, RLG Program Officer "Global Document Delivery over the Internet"  [PDF] [PowerPoint presentation] —Chris Wright, Assistant to the Director, Area Studies Collections, Library of Congress "Digital Delivery of Interlibrary Loan" [PDF] [PowerPoint presentation] —Glen Worthey, Head of the Humanities Digital Information Service, Stanford University
3:00	Moderated discussion, concluding at 4:30 p.m.