We are pleased to announce that along with the BC ELN Illume Benefits and Responsibilities [1], the Best Practices for SHAREit Academic Libraries* are now available on the Illume website: https://illumebc.ca/guides/best-practices [2]

The Illume Best Practices [2] documentation, which includes links to related FAQs & Guides, is the next step in a larger process that began several years ago. At the 2019 All Partner Meeting, Post-secondary libraries agreed to eliminate ILL transaction fees for non-returnable items between BC ELN partner libraries on the understanding that certain conditions were met, one of which was to develop formalized expectations for the Illume service. A revised timeline of this process, along with a web page backgrounder, is available at Elimination of ILL Fees [3].

Other upcoming activities for this project include: Template for publishing ILL Policies online, developing an ILL Staff Education series, developing Best Practices for ISO (eg. Relais) participating libraries, and investigating additional software enhancements & optimizations.

For more information, please contact Illume Support [4] or Anita Cocchia, BC ELN Executive Director at anitac@bceln.ca [5]. 

*Please note that Best Practices for Public Libraries are covered by policies available from Public Libraries Branch instead.