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: RapidILL Roadmap
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 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.
Events
Title II and RapidILL Webinar (Drive Video, recording starts 40 seconds in) and PDF of slides, April 7, 2026
Annual Reports