The ELUNA Rapido Working Group began work in May 2022. In close collaboration with the IGeLU Rapido Working Group, the Working Group prepares the yearly enhancements ballot, assists with conference planning, and works with Ex Libris management on developing focus groups.
Current Members
- Working Group Chair
- Drew Parker, Brandeis University, Primo Working Group Liaison, 2024-2026
- Deputy Working Group Chair
- Vacant
- Communication Monitors
- Deirdre Buckley, University of Nevada – Reno, Idea Exchange Monitor, 2022-2026
- Chrissy Masillo, Florida Gulf Coast University, Rapido-L Monitor 2023-2025
- Release Notes – Vacant
- Education Coordinator
- Katie Sanders, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Alma Working Group Liaison, 2022-2026
- Enchancement Coordinator
- Blake Galbreath, Washington State University, 2024-2026
- Chris Lee, California State University Chancellor’s Office, incoming coordinator, 2025-2027
- Leader at Large
- Sarah Frieldsmith, University of San Diego, 2024-2026
- Shannon Meaney-Ryer, Saint Mary’s College of California, 2024-2026
- Xuan Lily Pang, University of Florida, 2025-2027
- Vanessa Sanjuan-Miranda, Gettysburg College, 2025-2027
- Liaisons to Related Working Groups
- Kim Smalley, Fitchburg State University, RapidILL Liaison, 2024-2026
- Shelly Schmucker, Florida State University, Rialto WG Liaison, 2024-2026
- Secretary
- Vacant
- Steering Committee Representatives
- Birgit Hallerberg, Sciences Po, IGeLU Steering Committee Representative, 2025-2026
- Lori Hilterbrand, Orbis Cascade Alliance, ELUNA Steering Committee Representative, 2023-2026
Chair Biography
Drew Parker has been at Brandeis University as the Systems Librarian since 2019. In 2021, Brandeis dropped OCLC WorldShare ILL in order to focus its resource sharing energy (and dollars) on Rapido / RapidILL and on facilitating peer-to-peer connections with other libraries, and Drew is especially proud of Brandeis’ work in promoting interoperability between library resource sharing systems. In his spare time, he enjoys reading (shocker!).
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 will be available in mid-fall.
| Announce the process begins April 1st | |
| Go Live for accepting enhancement requests | |
| Last chance to submit new enhancement requests for this year’s voting in Aha! | |
| The Enhancements Team reviews, dedupes, scopes, verifies, transfers to other Aha! workgroups when necessary, and sets up the vote | |
| First round of voting | |
| The Enhancements Team reviews the results, and prepares them for Ex Libris to assign complexity points | |
| Ex Libris adds complexity points to the top voted results | |
| Extra time assigned for clarification with Ex Libris | |
| Second round of voting |
Current Roadmap / Action Plan
Mailing Lists
Rapido Listserv
RapidILL ListServ Archives
Events
No upcoming events scheduled at this time.
Hybrid Pods Information
Ex Libris’s documentation on Rapido pods does not include hybrid pods (pods that include both Rapido and non-Rapido institutions), so at the prompting of the community, we’ve listed a couple of the larger ones we’re familiar with.
US Hybrid Pod
The US Hybrid Pod is open to anyone in the United States who would like to join that uses either Alma or Rapido for resource sharing. More information
East Coast Mixed P2P Pod
The East Coast Mixed P2P Pod is open to members that are roughly in its geographical range. To inquire about potential membership, please reach out to Tim Jackson at SUNY.
Presentations from 2024-2025
- Increasing the Accessibility and Usability of Rapido Letters
- Peer to Peer Connections Between Rapido and ILLiad