PHILADELPHIA — August 26, 2024 — The Open Library Foundation (OLF) welcomes Project ReShare to its growing list of open-source member projects. Project ReShare brings a collaborative community of open information advocates and expertise in resource sharing that strengthens the open-source library ecosystem.
Project ReShare provides an innovative, community-owned resource-sharing platform that sets the stage for the future of library resource-sharing built upon principles of trust, openness, inclusivity, transparency, and accountability, and with active participation from implementers and partners, including PALCI, CAVAL, Minitex, Boston Library Consortium, Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, Index Data, and others. With ReShare Digital, Project ReShare aims to revolutionize e-book lending and other forms of digital resource-sharing, ensuring wider access to digital materials for communities everywhere.
Charlie Barlow, Project ReShare’s Steering Committee’s co-chair and the Executive Director at Boston Library Consortium, says, “We are delighted to formalize and deepen ReShare’s relationship with the Open Library Foundation. We’ve worked alongside the OLF since ReShare’s early founding days in 2018, collaborating on open-source platforms and tools. This opportunity allows us to continue our advocacy efforts, be an active contributor at the WOLFCon events, and expand collaboration with other like-minded and complementary initiatives. We believe joining the OLF’s efforts to grow open source will enhance collaboration within the library community.”
President of the OLF Board of Directors, Tom Cramer, says, “Project ReShare’s members are deeply committed to open source software, community-driven development, and a robust and open library services ecosystem. The project has made great strides in advancing resource sharing since its founding, and the OLF and our other member projects will only grow stronger with the addition of the ReShare community’s energy, collaborative spirit and drive for interoperability.”
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To learn more about Project ReShare, please visit: https://projectreshare.org/.
About Project ReShare
Project ReShare began in 2018 as a coming together of library consortia, academic institutions, developers, and non-profit foundations around the common goal of creating an open-source, unmediated resource-sharing solution. More than just an interlibrary loan tool, ReShare empowers libraries to take ownership of the software and guide the direction of the project. With its software currently powering a wide variety of resource-sharing programs, ReShare strives to set the standard for how libraries collaborate, partner, share resources, and connect patrons to the information they require by developing user-centered, standards-based, community-driven, and community-owned library technologies and tools.
About the Open Library Foundation
The Open Library Foundation was created in 2016 as an unbiased, independent not-for-profit organization to ensure the availability, accessibility and sustainability of open source and open access projects for and by libraries. Software developed by communities hosted by the Foundation is freely available under standard open source licenses for personal, institutional or commercial use. The software is open and free in order to sustain an open collaboration of interested parties. The Foundation provides infrastructure by which the library community at large can organize, contribute to, and benefit from our projects — ensuring availability and a “safe haven” for member communities’ output that is separated from the needs and goals of any single contributor, user or affiliated party. Find out more at www.openlibraryfoundation.org.
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For more information, please contact:
Project ReShare
info@projectreshare.org
The Open Library Foundation
mediainquiries@openlibraryfoundation.org