Dennis Massie writes: “In late August, interlibrary loan staff at libraries across the United States found themselves facing an unprecedented situation. Revocation of the de minimus tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800, effective August 29, threw a blanket of uncertainty over global international shipping operations. More than a dozen countries abruptly paused all shipping to the US, as did many document suppliers and book vendors. The SHARES community, a multinational resource sharing consortium whose members are being impacted in different ways depending on their local context, responded as resource sharing practitioners always do: by banding together.”
