ABSTRACT
Rising publication costs and declining financial resources have resulted in renewed interest among librarians in resource sharing. Although the idea of sharing resources is not new, there is a sense of urgency not seen in the past. For many libraries, obtaining even basic works has become a challenge and frequency of use is playing a greater part in library decisions, ranging from where books are shelved (on or off site), which books go to the head of the queue for preservation, and even which books are acquired. Driven by rising publication costs and static and often shrinking budgets, librarians are embracing resource sharing as an idea whose time may finally have come.
