The RapidILL Working Group consists of a team of library professionals who provide representation of the resource sharing community to Ex Libris Product Management. The working group is charged with carrying out a yearly enhancement vote in collaboration with the Rapido Working Groups, supporting the yearly ELUNA User Group Meeting, liaising with the Ex Libris Product Team, and building a strong community.
Current Members
- Working Group Chair – 2025-2026
- Amanda Rudd, arudd@usna.edu, U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, USA
- Deputy Chair and Outgoing Enhancement Coordinator
- Martin Patrick, martin.patrick@library.gatech.edu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Blog Coordinator
- Kristine Shrauger, kristine.shrauger@ucf.edu, University of Central Florida, USA
- Education Coordinator
- Nicola Sikkema, sikkeman@queensu.ca, Queen’s University, Canada
- Incoming Enhancement Coordinator
- Kenny Herniman, hernimanka@ccsu.edu, Central Connecticut State University, USA
- Leader at Large
- Max Bowman, mgbowman@colby.edu, Colby College, USA
- Melissa Eighmy Brown, eighm002@umn.edu, University of Minnesota, USA
- Joyce Melvin, jmelvin@unl.edu, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA
- Liaisons from Related Working Groups
- Rapido – Kim Smalley, ksmalley@fitchburgstate.edu, Fitchburg State University, USA
- Rialto – Shelly Schmucker, shelly.schmucker@fsu.edu, Florida State University, USA
- Secretary
- Julie Housknecht, housknechtj@uncw.edu, University of North Carolina – Wilmington, USA
- Steering Committee Representatives
- Birgit Hallerberg – IGeLU, Sciences Po, France
- Lori Hilterbrand – ELUNA, Orbis Cascade Alliance, USA
- Ex Libris Product Manager: Mike Richins, USA
Current Enhancement Process and Dates
The 2025 enhancement process for RapidILL and Rapido was completed. Five enhancements were voted for development:
- RAENH-I-1284: Resource sharing form: Add logic to remove the Pickup location field for digital resource sharing requests (10 dev points)
- RAENH-I-1276: The automatic transfer of Patron Notes on Borrowing requests to the Lending library (8 dev points)
- RAENH-I-1266: Capability to refine Digital Article requests (10 dev points)
- RAENH-I-1273: Stop repeat requests from another library for an item if rejected for copyright compliance (20 dev points)
- RAENH-I-1269: Rapido API: possibility to extract the borrowing IZ/library and lending IZ/library for a request (based on the external request ID) (8 dev points)
The 2026 process and timeline has been verified.
| March 2026 | Announce the process begins April 1st |
| April 1 | Go Live for accepting enhancement requests |
| April 24 | Last chance to submit new enhancement requests for this year’s voting in Aha! |
| May 1-31 | The Enhancements Team reviews, dedupes, scopes, verifies, transfers to other Aha! workgroups when necessary, and sets up the vote |
| June 2-23 | First round of voting |
| June 24-July 15 | The Enhancements Team reviews the results, and prepares them for Ex Libris to assign complexity points |
| July 16-August 13 | Ex Libris adds complexity points to the top voted results |
| August 14-31 | Extra time assigned for clarification with Ex Libris |
| September 1-22 | Second round of voting, if necessary |
Current Roadmap / Action Plan
Mailing Lists
RapidILL Listserv: https://exlibrisusers.org/postorius/lists/rapidill.exlibrisusers.org/
RapidILL ListServ Archives: https://exlibrisusers.org/hyperkitty/list/rapidill@exlibrisusers.org/
RapidILL Working Group bylaws and terms of commitment
1. All members must be Ex Libris users and members of ELUNA.
2. Members serve a minimum 1-year term, while the Chair and Deputy Chair serve a minimum of 2 years.
3. Membership vacancies will be advertised through the RapidILL email list.
Annual Reports