How to join the IDS Project?

Any library within New York State is encouraged to join the IDS Project. There are no fees associated with membership; however, members must subscribe to OCLC and the ILLiad Resource Sharing Management system.

If you are interested in joining the IDS Project, please contact Ed Rivenburgh, the Project Director, at edr@geneseo.edu or 585-245-5172.

Benefits of joining the IDS Project

• Emphasis on building “a unified community of trust & support”
• Unmediated article request management
• Workflow services and tools: Workflow Toolkit, GIST, Mentors, Training, etc.
• Real-time and multi-level ILL transaction performance data analytic tools for performance and programmatic evaluation (TPAM)
• Trained teams of volunteer mentors (applications & technical)
• User-centric definition of an ILL transaction
• Handle both physical items (books, media, etc.) and articles
• Contractual performance benchmarks
• Objective data for decision making & policy development
• Extensive sharing of eJournals
• No charges for loans among IDS libraries
• Commitment of talent and time of members