“…Recently, however, there has been some resurgence in interest in the concept and focus of resource sharing (Jackson, 2005;Williams, 2008;Bennett, 2007;Clark and Bailey-Hainer, 2007;Oberlander, 2007;Dunsire, 2007 to name but some), and while unsurprising, it is nevertheless interesting to note, that much of the impetus for this new interest and discussion is drawn from interlibrary loan services and experiences, and driven mainly, but not exclusively, by the need to reconfigure interlibrary loan services to meet users' current needs and expectations. Although interlibrary loan services are an integral and vital part of the knowledge chain, the focus of this paper will be the challenges of resource sharing in a broader sense.…”